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Fri, 24 Feb 2006
A Ruby script to collate bookmarks from Netscape/Mozilla, Opera, and IE into a single YAML database. Instead of preserving the original hierarchy, it uses folder names as "labels" attached to each URL. (I found that I had the same links filed in different ways in different bookmark files.) At some point I might write as script that converts the YAML file to Mozilla bookmarks, using a description of the canonical hierarchy of labels.
The tarball also includes a multithreaded link checker script, to verify that links still exist. I haven't gotten around to a proper installer, so if you want to use this as a module elsewhere, you'll have to copy it to the appropriate location yourself.
Download here.Ruby scripts to compute Robert Martin's dependency metrics, as described in Agile Software Development, in Eiffel code. I have a sporadic interest in Eiffel, and wondered how Martin's metrics translate into Eiffel.
Most other languages have an explicit statement stating what
modules or classes a source file uses (C/C++ #include,
Java/Python import, Ruby require, etc.), but
Bertrand Meyer in his infinite wisdom decided that resolving class
names to their definitions happens in an "Ace" file when a program is
assembled. Right now the scripts don't use Ace files, and assume
(hope) that names are unique and that Ace files don't rename classes.
This poses problems in, for example, the GOBO libraries, which have
different versions of the same class for each compiler supported.
Like the Bookmarks scripts, this program is divided into several modules, one of which is an "Eiffel scanner" which is arguably more complex than a true Eiffel parser would have been. The scripts need not only packaging but better tests, so the numbers may not be accurate.
Download here.
