MultiMarkdown upgrades for Marky the Markdownifier I’ve updated Marky the Markdownifier with a few key fixes and improvements. It’s getting more and more traffic and has some dedicated users, so it seemed like it was about time to solve some of the more annoying issues. It still needs a usability overhaul and some kind of iOS solution, but these issues were the ones that bothered me the most. Marky now: I have a very basic parser written for converting HTML tables to MMD format, but it chokes on more complex and nested tables, so it’s not live yet. Lastly, I’ve given the styling a small kick in the pants. I’ve started playing with mobile solutions. There’s no elegant way I can find to get your Markdown to your clipboard, or even programtically select text for copying in iOS 7. As an aside, there’s an in-flux Reader-only version that uses the same back end. I should mention that the API is getting messy as I add options, and I may rewrite it with more consistent and semantic methods and options in the future.
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Marky the Markdownifier, reworked and refined Marky the Markdownifier, my web tool that extracts web articles and converts them to Markdown, has received an update that resolves quite a few standing issues. It’s a major update and partial rewrite, so there may still be some bugs. Please feel free to drop me a line on Twitter or contact me directly if you run into problems. The biggest changes are that the “readability” functions that strip ads, menus, comments, etc. out of the post are now handled by an updated version of PHP Readability, and the “markdownifying” part is handled by html2text instead of PHP Markdown Extra. The previews are also rendered by MultiMarkdown 4 now. The most obvious improvement in all of this is that if a post contains images within links (i.e. hyperlinked images), it won’t throw off the reference counter for the links. All of the API features should still be intact, and the bookmarklets should work as they always have.
Markdown Syntax Documentation Note: This document is itself written using Markdown; you can see the source for it by adding ‘.text’ to the URL. Overview Philosophy Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. To this end, Markdown’s syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so as to look like what they mean. Inline HTML Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements — e.g. For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article: This is a regular paragraph. © 4 < 5 1.
FAME Computer Education: TCP/IP for Idiots Tutorial InterWorks '96 San Diego, CA Presented by: Fred Mallett FAME Computer Education 334 Haroldson Dr Corpus Christi, TX 78412 512-991-3044 frederm@aol.com Overview Introduction to TCP/IP What is TCP/IP? Two separate protocols, independent of each other Transmission Control Protocol, defines the protocol for one host (host application) to talk to another. Internet Protocol, defines the protocol that gateways use to identify networks, and paths to networks and hosts. User Datagram Protocol, Treats data as a message, and sends packets. Network Model ISO/OSI Network Model Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model First proposed by the: International Standards Organization The model is a theoretical model and most network implementations do not follow it exactly, TCP/IP really has less "layers" TCP Communications Communication requirements For a message to be "sent" (no guarantee that it gets there), the following three steps must be accomplished: TCP/IP Terms Host Ethernet address Host Names Host Names Routing
More Marky love for nvALT I’ve added a couple of new API parameters to Marky to allow better nvALT clipping of web pages. First, if you’re not using the nvALT 2.2 beta, the url handler is “nvalt” instead of “nv”. Now you can specify an output type of “nvalt” instead of “nv” and get the right handler returned. I’d recommend, of course, just using the beta. It’s stable and happy. Second, I added the ability to send a “tags” parameter. The new parameters are documented in the API section under the Marky input form. I also added a ready-to-go bookmarklet for the tags feature to Marky’s page. Élaboration et conversion de documents avec Markdown et Pandoc Avant-propos Cette page web décrit le langage de balisage léger d'écriture de documents Markdown (markup language) ainsi que l'utilisation du convertisseur Pandoc, notamment les riches et très utiles extensions apportées à la syntaxe Markdown par ce convertisseur. Cette page a été rédigée en langage Markdown (vous pouvez examiner son code source) en faisant un large usage des extensions offertes par Pandoc (dont nous utilisons la version 1.11.1 du 17-03-2013). Elle a été convertie en HTML avec la commande pandoc -s -N --toc --mathjax -c markdown-pandoc.css -o index.html index.md. Son rendu web s'appuie en outre sur une feuille de style CSS spécifique que nous avons réalisée et qui est plutôt orientée impression. Vous pouvez aussi de ce document, à consulter par exemple avec l'excellente liseuse libre Calibre. Une dernière remarque : ne soyez pas effrayé par la taille de cette documentation ! Quelques références Markdown Pandoc Autres langages de balisage légers... Généralités Titres Liens Listes
Information for newcomers This thread is here to answer some of the most common questions and to provide links to resources you may find helpful. First of all, bot development is not simple. If you use something that does most of the work for you, like CleanSlateBot (CSB), it can be made fairly easy, but this intro assumes you are doing it the proper way. I am a new programmer with little or no networking experience: Firstly: You will probably find this hard. You need to learn about TCP/IP and networking. You need to learn how to use these concepts in your language of choice (VB, C++, Java) You will need to learn about binary, hexadecimal, and endian-ness. You will need to learn how to copy chunks of data in your chosen language (For example, CopyMemory in VB, memcpy or pointers in C++) You will need to know how to monitor network traffic, and how to find what you're looking for within a packet dump. I am an intermediate or advanced programmer: Firstly, you should read the steps for beginners detailed above.
Marky the Markdownifier, reintroductions I’ve been working a bit on Marky the Markdownifier. It’s a project I started back in 2010 and use regularly, but it’s never really caught on with the Markdown masses. I’ve tweaked the algorithms and added to the API to make Marky as useful as possible within my own workflow, and hopefully within other’s as well. At its most simple, Marky takes urls and converts them to Markdown text, removing comments and ads in the process. Starting with Bookmarklets for your browser, you can convert the current page to raw Markdown, open it as a preview, even save it directly to nvALT. Everything is done with GET or POST requests to /go/ on your chosen domain. There are details for the API listed on the homepage for each of the two flavors of Marky (folksy and sailor versions). Here are a couple of Bash functions I use for clipping from the command line: I’ve created a Ruby script that handles just about every combination of tasks you’d want to run on your local system. Marky Services v1.0
WriteMonkey - Home Make your Skype Bot in .NET Download source code - 1.05 MB Introduction The motive of this article is to explain: How to make Skype work with .NET. How to make an answering bot. When you type a command ! Some months earlier, I wrote a Skype plug-in for Cropper (an Open Source screen capture tool) called SendToSkype based on the same concept. Prerequisites Skype. What is the Skype4COM COM wrapper? Skype4COM is an interface which represents the Skype API as objects, with properties, commands, and events and notifications. When you develop an app from scratch... Download Skype4COM.dll. Sample code Below is the code of the sample application attached. Remember! When you try to run this application, make sure Skype is also running. So do not get nervous. Source code explanation Declaration Once you have referenced Skype4COM.dll, you will be able to use SKYPE4COMLib which is our core Skype communication component. using SKYPE4COMLib; private const string trigger = "!" An example of a chat looks like this: >>Blah >>! Process commands