Greetings List Lurkers, Unbroken days of cloudy overcast with rain have just at this writing broken into warm sunlight!
During this waterlogged passage of this past week, I was most satisfied to get my latest VisualBash creation "menubot.sh" operational. (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#menubot.sh). What this does is take a proposed help menu and constructs a VisualBash "FED" framework within which you concoct the functions necessary to get the job done. The program currently exists in draft form, a rewrite will arrive with more May showers. Using menubot.sh we now can see the completion of the Zope2 containerization project. The first VisualBash to come out of this "interpreter-interpreter" is a VisualBash script for the management of the Zope2 system that DTG and I virtual-ized last month. you cannot imagine how gratifying it is to have finally made some progress, and it works on the web site! Once MMS (Monday Morning Syndrome) ends - say Tuesday, I will be back burnishing this to make even more of my life VisualBash script driven... The open question as posed by Eric-the-weasel was, why not end your suffering and develop Bash scripts using AI. His first suggestion was horrible. His suggestion was to use Micro$oft Co Pilot. What a mistake! Not only do they want to softly force you to the Visual Studio Editor intellectual ghetto, but to add insult to injury, they want to charge you $10/month for the privilege! However do not despair, as the question remains; can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? I particularly want a shell generator that takes the menubot.sh result and based upon the contents of the menu generates the VisualBash Function slugs. Note that the Evaluator and the Dispatcher are now already created by menubot.sh. God and Dave-The-Geek help me... Now that I have mastered generation of VisualBash, I endeavor to revise the following script: lxcycl.sh - The LinuX Container CYCle (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/docker#LinxXContainercYCL) This is an attempt to encapsulate the tools you need to perform most docker based development. This kind of script is mostly to allow me to learn and retain my foo in docker development. I maintain that this script is necessary as my mastery of the "docker" noun-verb name-space waxes and wains as time goes on. This unworthy efforts is up on GitHub as I finished mercilessly editing lxcycl.sh. The concept is that the program once properly activated, will prompt you with the command line prior to executing it, thus allowing for you to painlessly learn the docker noun-verb name-space. This is a work in progress to be continued as long as the sun does not shine here in Vermont. Could this methodology empower our adventures into Home Assistant? ...so more about these foolish ideas is available this Monday evening at 6 PM at the York Library. This all adds up to our centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we will do our thing! This evening beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Come on to meet.Jit.si/bosi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join... Feel free to click the following link to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi Let me know if this works for everyone... ===== Just want to dial in on your phone? Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198# Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road... Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting: https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi Happy Spring!!! Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
