Quote Originally Posted by Khatovar View Post
Any post can do it, not just the HKN ones, not just posts from long time members. I'm sure I'm not the only one around here who's been inspired like that from someone who doesn't know you "just can't" or who wants to know exactly why we do something a certain way. I know Jafula and Lax can certainly attest to that!
Amen! Two or three (or four?) weeks ago Beeq was playing around with the armory and his php server, and linking us the results in Isboxer chat, and that reminded me that I always meant to automate some of my multiboxing spreadsheets so that they downloaded information from the armory. I wrote a perl script that downloaded and parsed the first three pages of the wow recruiting forums this spring, throwing out any posts originally from more than a week ago, and I figured the armory couldn't be harder than that. The result was the baby version of my script http://www.dual-boxing.com/entries/9...acters-(Basic) and then the "grown up" version (which generates 3 different csv files, one of gear, one of professions, and the original) that I import into excel by clicking a big sexy "import data" button. None of this would have happened if I hadn't seen Beeqs enthusiasm at the exact moment I had some free time and was looking for a programming project. And I wasn't actually playing Wow at the time!

Another great example is your own Khat fishing guide. Now I didn't care that much about fishing but seeing that guide challenged me to set it up just for the fun of following a complex guide and I got the stupid ironforge fish in less than an hour. I still use the hotkey, actually, because syncing camera views back up helps to negate the headaches you get from watching one character run from the side out of the corner of your eye.