Subj : Writing custom script
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Apr 06 2006 08:39 pm

  Re: Writing custom script
  By: Sam Alexander to All on Thu Apr 06 2006 05:50 pm

 > Hello all,
 > 
 > Okay, I'm no JS programmer, but I'd love to learn.  One project I think
 > might be fun to write plus useful is something that'll take an RSS Feed and
 > plug the downloaded media files into a file area then use details from the
 > XML file to create details.  Problem is I have no idea where to start!

RSS-fed media files?!? The RSS feeds I'm aware of feed *text* (snippets of new
articles with the links to the full article).
 
 > For those seasoned in JS and how it works with Sync, would this be a decent
 > first project to attempt?  I used to program in C++ many years ago in
 > MS-DOS, but it's been literally 7-10 years since I wrote a piece of code.
 > Currently I mainly program for web, so that's PHP and ColdFusion, but I
 > wnat something that'll be portable and something I can share with others
 > easily, which is why JS might be best.
 > 
 > Thanks for any advice or maybe pointers to do some Hello World apps with JS
 > and Sync.

http://synchro.net/docs/js.html

There are ton of examples in exec/*.js.

print("Hello, world\r\n");

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