TechScreen Revised

Members of a small group should be able to communicate over the internet. The solution should be as easy as possible - no additional tools , no registration should be needed.

Several employees, who work together on a single project, shall have the possibility to share and work on data over a great distance. If data are modified by a person, these modifications shall be effective at all other authorised users. We want to find a tool to synchronise data.

An organisation is build up as follows: one headquater, whiche is technically well equipped and 6 to 8 sub-offices spread all over Austria, each with one or two personal computers. The headquater has a server which is regularly serviced and backed. On this server are all datafiles required. All sub-offices but no third party should have access to this data bases.

A person who runs a web site should be able to upload photos and update the photo gallery autonomously. Even if the operator is untrained it should be not problem for him/her to upload the photos or carry out modifications. The pictures should be automatically converted in a format and filesize suitable for webpages.

The Community API from The New York Times allows to retrieve user comments from articles. I want to collect all comments from a given date and analyze the content, by looking at the most common words and display them in a tag cloud. Now the API allows me to search comments by date, but the problem is that it only returns 25 comments. The problem is that on some days roughly 5000 comments are submitted and the API doesn't give me the option to fetch them all at once. The only way to get more comments is by using the parameter "offset".

Chickenfoot is a firefox plugin and a very convenient non-visual tool for web data extraction. For the navigation in swoodoo.com, a meta search engine for flights, I used the Chickenfoot methods. The problem occured when I tried to locate a specific element in the DOM tree. The Chickenfoot method find() returns an unhandy wrapper of the HTML structure.

With the method addClass() and an CSS class it is easy to change the appearance of the text with the limitation that the text has to appear in HTML tags. For highlighting specific words in free text, this method is not working.

I was searching for an easy way to count the words of a given String in a WebL program. WebL is considered as outdated, so it was difficult to find information online.

To teach the usage of client SW to a customer in India, I had to connect the client PC in the course room in India with the server machine in Austria. For security reasons there was no internal private company network available.

Up to now I have solved these kind of tasks with putty but putty did not work, I don't know why. I somehow could not get the login prompt from the server.