If you use Cha-Ching and have a bank, like PNC, that allows exports into Quicken File (.QFX) format, then you can use a quick sed script to replace the normally useless <name> field with the infinitely more useful <memo> field.
Ta-da:
#!/bin/sh
sed -e '/\<NAME/d' -i '' "$1"
sed -e 's/\<MEMO/\<NAME/' -i '' "$1"
Save it as quickenImportManip.sh, and run it:
$ chmod +x quickenImportManip.sh
$ ./quickenImportManip.sh YourQuickenFile.qfx
Then import away!
Here’s a snippet:
- (void) testSettingPositionString { NSString * pos = [NSString stringWithString:@"rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]; [conv setPositionString: pos]; STAssertTrue([conv positionString] == pos, @"Position string not set"); }
:-)
I made a lot of progress this weekend on the project I brought to the forefront once I put aside all the other projects I realized I wasn’t that interested in.
Rancher’s Delight, if you don’t know, is a game engine I’m making based on the SNES classic Harvest Moon. Its primary goal is to faithfully recreate the underlying engine for the original game. Once that is done, I will extend it to allow for a programmable system that will enable anybody to create any kind of Harvest Moon-like game they wish.
What I accomplished this weekend:
Camera, which takes care of all kinds of relationships between things. Already a lot more relationships can be refactored out, but I can’t see the most effective ways to do so until the whole thing gets a lot more complicated. Primarily I’m starting to see the difference between an object doing something, and the user seeing what it does.So, yeah. A decent amount of work. You can keep track of the progress on the GitHub feed of commits for the project, as well as test and try it out yourself by cloning my repository:
git clone git://github.com/ardekantur/ranchers_delight.git
In the meantime, here’s a pre-release screenshot :-) It’s Jack spending some alone time on the church roof.
Mostly this is just farting around but I thought I’d post about it because it’s an interesting idea, at least in theory.
GUIDs are good but I wanted to do one better. So I created SUUIDs. Super Universally Unique IDs. The format of the current version, v2.0, is thus:
2/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx
Where x is a case-sensitive alphanumeric character. This gives us somewhere in the area of 3.35×10^64 possible combinations, and a lot of interesting characteristics.
IPv6, this functions just as well as an IPv6 address format. Thus, The IPv6 address 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab is notated as 2/20010db8-00000000-00000000-142857ab-IPv6. If a field contains all the same character, you can replace the ending hyphen with a comma and the field with a single instance of that character, so that IP address could also be 2/20010db8-0,0,142857ab-IPv6.0MD5 — that’s an MD5 checksum as well as a unique address.An implementation in Ruby:
module SUUID def self.gen chars = ("a".."z").to_a + ("1".."9").to_a + ("A".."Z").to_a x = [8, 8, 8, 8, 4] x.map! {|i| i = Array.new(i, '').collect{chars[rand(chars.size)]}.join } return "2/" + x.join('-') end end
It’s not pretty, but it gets the job done. You could always throw a more random source of entropy at it, use the system date, time, whatever. Don’t particularly care about the implementation.
Here’s what a couple look like — to get used to the idea :-)
2/f9nuBgzm-HGTE4bSK-ZEfkfsRp-T3SXgpXA-5LNC
2/hoyOCd7o-V48NQGvv-OS5RBDIl-CG1FRNqG-Xd3j
2/sUZd6aGa-1J55rs9C-lxH1mvPA-I9PAvkOh-ZLVj
Additionally, you can omit the version number, which so far still allows for distinction between version 1 and version 2 (version 1 didn’t have lowercase letters). This means you have a nice set of directory names at your disposal.
mkdir /DOMejDTy-APESCioG-yyXpXBNL-lYAuQogL-Uep9
mkdir `curl -X POST http://example.com/suuid/provider`
I have no idea how checksums, hashes, verified randomness all fit into something like this. Just something fun and stupid to keep me occupied today.