Software

"That's not a bug; it's a feature"
--Murphy's laws of computers


HTML generators
As you can probably tell, these walkthough tours have a lot of redundant HTML code. Because I do have a life, or maybe because I just don't have better things to do, I wrote some programs that mass produce the HTML documents from a tab delimited text data file. To say the very least, I was happy when I cranked out 440 some HTML documents and didn't have to press a key.

But moving onwards. Right now the only language I've written these HTML programs in is AppleScript, so for those of you without Mac systems, you're a bit out of luck. At any rate if you would like me to send you a copy of the program, I will most likely send it to you--so long as you note that it came from me I don't really care how you change it. It really is a nice program--it actually reads a set of header files before writing the HTML code, so making HTML code changes is extremely easy.

Eventually I hope to port the programs over to Perl; a language that is not only beautiful to use for text manipulation, but is also cross-platform. At any rate when I actually do that, I guess I'll be putting both the AppleScript and the Perl in the public domain.

Stuff used for our tours
Stuff we use in making tours [by no means everything or what I plan to use in future tours]...but up here because I cherish them.

Hardware

  • Apple Quicktake 150 Camera
  • Various Power Macintoshes
  • Powerbook 165B
  • PowerTower Pro 225 [yes I really mean it]

Software

  • MacOS
  • BBEdit
  • AppleScript programs (Funny Farm, my program)
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • GraphicConverter
  • WebMap and ImageMapper

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