Programmer needed to create a small app.

[Gryphon]

I really wish that I could do this myself <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START |I --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tired.gif ALT="|I"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> It is one of those little things I wish I could create on my own since finding exactly what I want already made it not an easy task. This seems to be a relatively simple program to make and am hoping someone would like to donate their time and creativity to this project.<br><br>I need to basically make a artificial cron job since my web host only allows 1 per day and that hardy works itself. Below is a mock-up of what I am thinking of.<br><br>I would like to specify a target script and send a post containing certain variables in either a one-time execution or recurring. It should also be immune to timouts or invalid urls.<br><br>It would be great if multiple instances were available. And mm:ss is the increment I would need at minimum if larger is too difficult.<br><br>Thanks in advance. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.thzclan.com/temp/cron.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p><div align="left"><hr color="#daae52"><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/gryphav.gif/sigs.php" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.thzclan.com/gryphav.gif"></a> <a href="http://www.thzclan.com/cam" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thzclan.com/cam/gryphon/thb_ccam.jpg" border="0"></a><br><font size="1"><b><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/tcdb" target="_blank">Tribes Clan DB</a> - List your Tribes1/2 Clan, Guild, Fansite, League, or Script site<br><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/snooknet" target="_blank">SnookNet Web Design</a> - My web building adventures<br><a href="http://www.ryanaaron.com/dtm" target="_blank">Dragon Talon Mercenaries</a> - Online Gaming Guild<br><a href="http://www.planettribes.com" target="_blank">PlanetTribes</a> - Sp3ci@l pr0jekts<br><a href="http://www.3dactionplanet.com/planetside" target="_blank">PlanetSide Shuttle</a> - Newsie extraordinaire<br><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/planetside" target="_blank">Allied Tribal Forces</a> - A PlanetSide alliance started by Tribesplayers</font></b><hr color="#daae52"></div></p><i></i>

[Gryphon]

Aha, I found a command line tool that should work ok <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://tony.aiu.to/sa/webfetch">tony.ai ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>*edit*<br>Arg, thought I could set Task Scheduler to run this, but TS's minimum setting is daily, I would like to get hourly, or every half-hour :/<br><br>*edit**edit*<br>Ok Shoddy helped me figure out how to make it update down to every minute.<br><br>The original request no longer needs to be fulfilled, though it would be a sweet app if anyone wants to tackle it <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub141.ezboard.com/bxmenclan.sho ... n</A>&nbsp; <IMG SRC="http://www.thzclan.com/images/thz.gif" BORDER=0> at: 7/10/03 10:58 pm<br></i>

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Okay... what's a "cron job"?<br><br>Never heard that term before.<br><br>Plus I keep thinking of "Kroenecker Delta" which is a math term for a tensor whose like indices are 1's. Kind of like an identity matrix, but not limited to a "flat" array (which a matrix is). A tensor can have as many indices as you want.<br><br>Think of a tensor as an object that can be 2x2. Or one that can be 2x2x2. It can be anything from a scalar, to a multi-dimensional array (such as a 2x2x2 array).<br> <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Unix systems have a "cron" process that runs commands at scheduled times. It's used by system and users both. Users can create a cron file that is checked for scheduled jobs. If the system is running when the job is supposed to be run, the command in the cron file is executed. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

Doh! I remember now.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Used that for parallel processing.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>