Archive for the 'Utility Mill' Category

My First Open Source Greeting Card Generator

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I spent all day making this greeting card generator. It was worth it though since it will save me hundreds of dollars of not having to buy cards over my life time
I’m hoping this will be useful to a lot of people. It’s amazing that there were no free online greeting […]

How to Make an HTML Element on Your Website Disappear after 10 Days

Saturday, October 13th, 2007


After October 15th, 2007 this message will disappear forever.

The text above is an example of auto-expiring HTML. (Don’t see it? If it’s after October 15, 2007, then it’s working Perhaps try viewing the source of this page to see it.)
Do you have any of these problems? If […]

Utility Mill Gets Imports

Thursday, July 5th, 2007


You now have access to the following libraries when you write a Utility Mill utility:
re, datetime, time, calendar, difflib, math, urllib, and random
Thus here’s the code for the Regex Evaluator utility:

regex=re.compile(REGEX)
matches=regex.finditer(TEXT)
for match in matches:
print ‘Found “%s” at position %s’ % (match.group(),match.start())


I also just made a text diff utility with the newly […]

Utility Mill - Make Your Own Utilities - Call to Action

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Have you ever needed to write a quick program or calculator? Have you ever had a problem that would be trivial to write a program for, but you still didn’t do it because you didn’t want the overhead of planning the interface, setting up version control, creating a GUI, distributing it to different systems, […]