FirstProductions Dining Guide allows users to browse and search the Chef Moz Dining Guide through a template-based interface customized by the webmaster. When a user requests dining guide information, FirstProductions Dining Guide will access Chef Moz and download the appropriate page. It will then scan the page for specific information that it needs, which is placed into variables. FirstProductions Dining Guide reads a template created by the webmaster and inserts the information obtained from Chef Moz in to the appropriate places. Because FirstProductions Dining Guide is templated-based, you have complete control over the look and feel of your dining guide.

This perl script counts the number of links on a page. For a list of webpages, it also calculates the average number of links per page.

It is rather simple. It fetches a web page and parses it for links, counting them as it goes.

I wrote it for my own amusement. When I was first creating web pages, you kept the pages simple. The rule-of-thumb was to keep the choices a user had to make under seven. Put simply, we tried to limit the number of links on a page, not neccesarily to just seven, because you would have navigation links. However, we attempted to keep it simple to navigate and actually find something on the page.

This script fetches the backend file from The Linux Review server every 60 minutes (default) and saves it locally. On request, the local file is read and healines printed in a formatted manner. The script is useful for including headlines in html pages.
Files included in the package:


README -- Read this file
linuxreview.cgi -- The main file (chmod it to 755)
linuxreview.out -- The local file (chmod it to 777)
update.txt -- The age file (chmod it to 777)
license.txt -- The GPL license (read before you play with this script)
Setup procedure :


Place files in the required directory (often cgi-bin).
Chmod the linuxreview.cgi to 755, and update.txt, linuxreview.out to 777.
Open linuxreview.cgi using any text editor and change variable values, if required.
Please do not tax the Linux Review server by fetching fresh files very frequently.
Include headlines in your web pages by using the following placed in brackets:

The script (or "scriptlet", I guess) uses Paul Jamieson Fenwick's wonderful Finance::Quote Perl module. The rational behind making the script was basically to have an easy interface to the module and an easy (and easily configurable) way to get stock quotes for my rather meager portfolio of tech stocks (although after what's happened to the NASDAQ so far this April, I'm not sure anymore if I want to see what's happening to my stocks...). I wanted to be able to get certain quote info from within another script I have, yet I also wanted a plain old server-side includes to return more detailed information from my HTML "home page", all without having to edit the script itself. In addition, I wanted to get quote data on one or more than one stock as needed, again without editing the script or hacking together a new quotes script every time I wanted different data. So I get this by "packaging" Finance::Quote's functionality in a Perl "wrapper" that I can easily call from someplace else.

The script would probably be most useful for anyone that doesn't want to write Perl CGI scripts or is just too lazy to bother (in the Good Sense). If you want to get different stock data in many places all from one source, then getstockquote will probably save you some time. One future use of it for me is to have a page which gives many very terse quotes, each of which are linked to more detailed single quote info. With this script I can do all that using just plain old HTML.

Whenever you're curious how a webpage works, use Master Snooper V2.

This handy program lets you see the HTML code which renders the page in your browser -- complete with JavaScript and other script languages; including all HTML comments.
Master Snooper V2 is an easy to install, easy to maintain CGI program written with Perl 5 to let you see the real code behind web pages.

Have you typed in one URL and ended up somewhere else? Use Master Snooper V2 to see the HTML source code they used to send you on your merry way!


Ever wonder what the HTML code of a framed website looks like? Use Master Snooper V2 to see it all!


Does your browser's "view source" results only show some of the JavaScript and other code a web page uses? Use Master Snooper V2 to see what's really there!