 Amanuenses
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What's An Amanuensis? |
The Oxford dictionary defines amanuensis as "one who writes from
dictation or copies manuscript; literary assistant." In other words an
amanuensis is an intelligent scribe who helps you compose words or music. You
don't have to give her all the details. She is quite capable of filling them in
for you. I use the term mainly to describe a program that helps you write
programs. You tell it in general what you want and it fills in the details for
you. I have written many amanuensis Applets, most of which help you write Java
code. You give them just a few bits of information about what you want and they
fill in the details generating the reams of code Java requires to specify the
same thing. Some of the Applets on this page, such as the Canadian Tax
Calculator, and the Biorhythm calculaltor are not really amanuenses. |
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Masker |
a signed Applet to help you hide email addresses from spam harvesters my
converting them to PNG files (like GIFs but smaller), for posting on websites.
2004-05-30
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Font Shower Amanuensis |
Shows you the fonts available in Java, and what they look like in various
styles, sizes and colours. 2004-06-02
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MimeCheck |
a signed Applet to find out just what MIME types a server is sending for a
given URL.
2004-06-02
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Biorhythms |
Enter your birthdate and this Applet and it will calculate your biorhythms.
It compute your 23-day physical, 28-day emotional, 33-day intellectual and
combined cycles. The combined cycle is sometimes called the luck cycle.
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Holiday Calculator |
Calculates when various holidays occur in any given year BC or AD. Designed
to be cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your own programs.
Also calculates the nearest weekday to any given holiday.
2004-05-29
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Canadian Sales Tax Calculator |
calculates Canadian GST, HST and PST sales taxes.
2004-06-06
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American Sales Tax Calculator |
calculates American state sales taxes. This program is incomplete. It needs
to be configured with the counties you use since in the USA taxes are not even
uniform within a state.
2004-06-06
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Conversion Amanuensis |
generates Java source code to convert any of the basic 16 Java types into
any of the others. 2004-06-02
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File IO Amanuensis |
The File I/O Amanuensis generates sample Java source code to read or write
the console, a sequential file, a random access file, a String, an array of
characters, an array of bytes, URL, HTTP CGI GET/POST, Socket or Pipe. It shows
you how to read or write ASCII-8 bit characters (plain or locale-encoded),
Unicode 16-bit characters, raw bytes, big endian binary, little endian binary,
or serialised objects, buffered, unbuffered or gzip compressed.
2004-06-09
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Credit Card Validation Amanuensis |
Applet to validate credit card numbers and determine which of the following
credit card companies issued the card: Amex, Diners Club, Carte Blanche,
Discover, enRoute, JCB, MasterCard or Visa.
2004-05-29
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Quoter Amanuensis |
Converts raw text to cooked HTML. It will help you write HTML, especially
HTML that talks about HTML or Java. It can be useful forcreating JavaDOC that
mentions the tags needed to run the program or that quotes Java source which
makes common use of < > and &.
It takes raw text and converts HTML's reserved characters such as & < >
and " and converts them to their cooked forms & < >
and ". It also converts accented and special characters to their cooked
forms, e.g. © to © and the é character to é It
also does many other text transformations.
2004-06-20
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ISBN Amanuensis |
validates ISBN (International Standard Book Numbers)
numbers by ensuring the check digit matches. Also inserts dashes in the right
places. Used for tidying and proofreading references to ISBNs in HTML or other
documentation. e.g. converts 013625666X to 0-13-625666-X. Valid ISBNs don't
always have the dashes in the same places e.g. : 0-13-625666-X, 0-9600688-8-0 or
1-56592-269-7. 2003-06-08
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Learn To Count |
Converts numbers to words, e.g. -12345 to "minus twelve thousand three
hundred forty-five". Works in Bahasa Indonesia, Binary, Decimal, Dutch (modern,
old and banker's), English (British, North American and ordinals), Esperanto,
French, German, Hexadecimal, Icelandic, Martian, Metric Metric Prefixes (grams),
Norwegian, Octal, Polish, RAM (bytes), Roman Numerals, Swedish or Tagalog.
Useful to learn to count in a foreign language. The InWords package classes are
also useful for cheque writing or legal documents.
2004-05-29
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Password Generator |
generates unguessable passwords.
2004-06-21
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Living Love Pathways Amanuensis |
generates advice to help you solve personal problems or other emotional
problems such as dealing with your fear and anger surrounding terrorism and war.
Based on Ken Keyes Jr.s' Twelve Pathways.
2003-06-08
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Wassup Amanuensis |
tells you the Java System properties, such as vendor, JVM version, Timezone
etc. This code is still under test and refinement. It also runs as an
application which will tell you many more facts. This is a signed Applet.
2004-06-01
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