[Chicago] Template Document

[Brantley Harris]

You're doing this all wrong.  No one wants to read what you're doing,
they want to scan a document and see that you're time and cost is
being held accountable.  It's superficial and ridiculous.  What you
need, good sir, is a bullshit generator.

Look into Markov chains and Natural Language Generation.

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Samir Faci <samir at esamir.com> wrote:
> I.  Rant
>
> Okay.. so.. my work is currently driving me a bit crazy with reports...
>
> daily, weekly, monthly.... and starting to feel like I should have a
> staring role with Office Space (well, there is a Samir in that movie
> ).
>
> So.. I started a minor little pet project to encourage my laziness in
> not keeping track of my time.
>
> I basically setup an identi.ca server, and I tweet what I'm working
> on... and it generates a report saying
>
> yesterday:
>  * task 1
>  * task 2
>
> Today:
>  * task 1
>  * task 2
>
>
> which is all working fine.  Right now, I want to build a bit more
> intelligence into it, and I was looking for some suggestions.
>
> 1. Question 1
>
> I don't want to statically define what the report should look like, so
> I was looking for some form of already existing (ideally) or simple
> too that would allow a user to define a document template
>
> and have it define where certain data goes.....
>
> I could probably write a very simple one on my own.. just wondering if
> there was any pre-existing technology / standard that I should look
> at.
>
> ie:
>
> <<Date>>
>  *  <Task> <Delta>
>  * <Task>  <Delta>
>
> or...
> <Date>, <Project>, <Task>
>
> allowing the user to format his report anyway he wants without having
> to touch the code....
>
> Okay.. so did that make sense?  Let me know if I need to clarify
> something... concept is still somewhat vague... but essentially I want
> to build a tool to not have to deal with TPS reprots anymore.
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