Annoying Project

Sometimes at work I have the exciting job of watching my programs run. This is especially interesting because of all the WONDERFULL output that they give me to look at (none at all in most cases).

Right now I am working on a program that looks through search engines and finds “contact us” forms and saving all of the variable names (names of information holders) into a database. Why anyone would want a list of variable names off web forms is beyond me. They don’t even want to know the URLs (Universal Resource Locator or web address) that the variables are coming from. They just want to know the variable’s name and what it is used for.

This has been a rather challenging project. I have had to come up with some once size fits all methods of gathering form input variables. That part in and of itself was not to hard as all I had to do was get the name out of all the input tags (a tag is a marker in HTML that describes how something should appear on a web page) .  The real hard part is dividing all the variables into categories.

Currently I can categorize less then half of the variables that I find, that’s only about 60% accurate. So as you can see the efficiency of this project is really low.

Also I have gotten some work done on http://volerum.com so check it out.

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