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[Omaha.pm] Introductory message ... and already I need help!
I just joined with the expectation that I might find someone here in the
Omaha area who I could hire to develop a fairly complex app for tracking
recordings of phrases, parsing and refining scripts, building a database,
presenting a user interface of some sort, and constructing a delivery
system which can pluck phrases from the database, concatenate them, name
the resulting files, and send them out the door.
Sounds daunting, and it doesn't help that as an IT guy tryin' to 'splain
it I make one helluva recording engineer. But I think it can be
modularized and built up over time. I'm inclined to specify perl for its
flexibility with strings and its ability to play well with other utility
apps the jobs require. The platform we're on is Mac OS X.
I'm at the stage where I need the first module of this project right
away. I thought I'd take a stab at coding it myself, but the last time I
did any coding was 6 or 8 years ago, and I don't have the time to re-learn
everything from the ground up. On top of which, I wasn't very good at it
to begin with (I may have been bad, but I was sure slow!).
The first module is fairly simple and straightforward (well... for anyone
who doesn't have to grab the camel book again to write a "hello world"
routine). I'm currently doing a lot of the work manually that I ultimately
want to automate with the full application, but the first and most
time-consuming chore I need the app to do for me is to parse a directory
full of filenames, and from that, create a subdirectory hierarchy, move the
files into their proper places within that hierarchy, and rename the files
once they're there.
Anyone out there able and willing to tackle a freelance job like this in
the next week or so? If so, my contact info is below; I'd welcome a chat
and an estimate. Meanwhile I'll bury my nose back in the books and hope I
won't have to roll my own....
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Clete Baker | cletus@bltd.com
Studio B, Ltd. | ph 402-455-3000
Omaha, Nebraska | fx 402-455-8269