JANITOR[tm]

This is a little perl script of mine to perform routine maintenance of Monochrome files. It's nothing like as complex as Mimic or certain other scripts, but it's quite easy to use and, once I've added a few more features to make it very easy to use, it will be made available to any staff member for use on their files.

At the moment its main function is to look through a comment file for edits older than a specified age, and either delete them, or copy or move them into a different file.

There are more interesting features planned, such as the ability to censor naughty words, but for the moment it's just a timekeeper built quickly for the Newsworld section.

MONOWEB

Monoweb is a more complex affair. It's a set of perl/CGI scripts which process Mono comment and menu files and create a fairly pretty representation in HTML for web browsing.

The applications of this may not be immediately obvious. It is _not_ (for the moment) intended as a front end to Monochrome itself, or as an alternative to the main system. Possible uses however are manyfold:

On Monochrome's web pages, to provide read-only access to certain files or areas on a similar basis to logging in as a guest.
For staff to prototype areas more easily if they have a slow telnet link but are able to browse web pages locally. (This is my situation at present.)
For any other application where you want to display a Mono file on the web as something other than plaintext.

Currently on its fifth major revision, Monoweb has pretty good support for things like attributes, processes menus pretty accurately, and looks pretty pretty! But there's still a lot of work to do.

More details on both of these later. In the meantime, if you want any more information on my projects just let me know.