think tank forum

throw ideas for software around in this thread. I have two cooking right now:

- android app to facilitate inventory adjustments at work. take input from barcode scanner, prompt user for a quantity. create a csv file formatted for importation into our inventory system and give the option to share it via email or save it to the sd card.

this might be fun mostly to teach me about creating an android app. I just took a java course (albeit a pretty easy one) so that helps. zxing (the people who release Barcode Scanner) has some apache 2.0-licensed barcode reading stuff that I can probably use, and the rest (file input/output, a simple gui) should be pretty easy.

- something, anything, using data from govtrack

> take input from barcode scanner

or the camera, if available

FYI I am one of the engineering contacts for USAspending.gov =P

well, the camera is the barcode scanner.

- small python script that will download all of my youtube favorites

I've gone back to watch favorited videos before and come across ones that had been inexplicably deleted or taken down because of copyright stuff. this sucks.

http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

It's Perl, rather than Python, though.

cool. I will probably use it as a reference at least.

There's youtube_dl, which works better than Clive IMHO. It's also in Python.