[Chicago] Template Document

[sheila miguez]

in some places they just want to associate blocks of work time with
project ids. in those cases, you wouldn't need to generate any
language, and would just maybe have some events fire off that are
tagged with appropriate stuff.

I've been annoyed at the tedium of filling out time sheet apps in
places where I've worked... the whole process could be scripted away
depending on the app you have to interact with. I wish ours had a nice
api so that I wouldn't have to use any web form.

sure it would be great to have a job where you didn't have to put up
with this BS, but is there any place with more than a hundred (fifty?)
people where you don't have to put up with it? if there is, please
tell me where to sign up.

when I am ready to move, I would like to change to a company that is
small enough not to have this BS, but at the same time not small in
the sense of only having boring stuff to work on.

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Brantley Harris <deadwisdom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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