Update format of node-for-everyday-things.

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[submodule "articles/step-of-conductor/step"]
+	path = articles/step-of-conductor/step
+	url = git://github.com/creationix/step.git
+[submodule "articles/step-of-conductor/conductor"]
+	path = articles/step-of-conductor/conductor
+	url = git://github.com/creationix/conductor.git

articles/node-for-everyday-things.markdown

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Title: NodeJS for everyday things
 Author: R. S. Doiel
 Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 14:20:20 GMT-0800 (PST)
+Node: v0.1.90
 
 Everyday things:
 > Those little programs you write quickly to get something done like counting pages in a text document.
@@ -9,7 +10,6 @@ Everyday things:
 
 Recently I was writing an essay and I needed to calculate a page count. My text editor was great at giving me a word count. I used the result and divided it by 350 to ball park my page count. This became problematic because I'm lousy at doing math in my head. Next I decided to chain some Unix commands together to do the job. I played with Bash, Unix's wc and cut commands I came up with this:
 
-    #!sh
     #!/usr/bin/env bash
     let x=$(wc -w $1 | cut -d\  -f 1)/350
     echo "Page count for $1 is $x";
@@ -18,70 +18,8 @@ This was nice. It was short. It worked but I wanted to procrastinate a little mo
 
 The page count problems are basically a simple analysis of text with some accounting. Could I quickly write a program using node to do something so mundane? Yes and it was surprisingly straight forward. I fired up node-repl and started playing around before typing up this:
 
-    #!/usr/bin/env node
-    /**
-     * Calculate the approximate the number of "pages" in a text document based on
-     * a word count of 350 words per page.
-     */
+<node-for-everyday-things/word-count.js*>
 
-    var sys = require('sys'),
-        fs = require('fs');
-
-    (function () {
-      /* Include some instructions for when I forget how this works. */
-      USAGE = function (message) {
-        var error_code = 0;
-        sys.puts("\n  USAGE: pagecount FILENAME\n" +
-          "\n" + "  Show the estimated page count of a file based on 350 words per page.\n" +
-          "  FILENAME should be the name of a utf-8 encoded text file.\n" +
-          "\b\n  Example:\n\t\tpagecount MyFile.txt\n\n  Estimates the page count of MyFile.txt\n");
-
-        if (message !== undefined) {
-          sys.puts(message);
-          error_code = 1;
-        }
-        process.exit(error_code);
-      };
-
-      if (process.argv.length < 3) {
-        USAGE();
-      }
-
-      /* PageCount() analyze the file and displays the results */
-      PageCount = function (filename) {
-        fs.stat(filename, function (stat_error, stat) {
-          if (stat_error) {
-            USAGE("ERROR: " + filename + ", " + stat_error);
-          }
-
-          if (stat.isFile()) {
-            fs.readFile(filename, 'utf8', function (read_error, content) {
-              var subtotal_words = 0;
-              if (read_error) {
-                USAGE("ERROR: Can't read " + filename + ". " + read_error);
-              }
-              /* Replace all non-letter characters with a single space. */
-              subtotal_words = content.replace(/\W+|\s+/gm,' ').split(' ').length;
-              page_count = (subtotal_words/350);
-              if (Number(page_count).toFixed(0) <= 1) {
-                sys.puts(filename + "(" + subtotal_words + " words): " +
-                  Number(page_count * 100).toFixed(0) + "% of one page.");
-              } else {
-                sys.puts(filename + "(" + subtotal_words + " words):" +
-                  Number(page_count).toFixed(2) + " pages.");
-              }
-            });
-          } else {
-            USAGE("ERROR: " + filename + " is not a file.");
-          }
-        });
-      };
-
-      /* For each file I want to tally up call PageCount() */
-      for (var i = 2; i < process.argv.length; i += 1) {
-        PageCount(process.argv[i]);
-      }
-    })();
 
 `pagecount` reports the plain text version of this essay is 636 words or 1.82 pages including the source code examples. It's a little longer than my shell script. On the other hand it is easier to read and with a little modification I can embed it as a web service or put it into a web page.
 

articles/node-for-everyday-things/word-count.js

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Calculate the approximate the number of "pages" in a text document based on
+ * a word count of 350 words per page.
+ */
+
+var sys = require('sys'),
+    fs = require('fs');
+
+/* Include some instructions for when I forget how this works. */
+function USAGE(message) {
+  var error_code = 0;
+  sys.puts("\n  USAGE: pagecount FILENAME\n\n" +
+    "  Show the estimated page count of a file based on 350 words per page.\n" +
+    "  FILENAME should be the name of a utf-8 encoded text file.\n" +
+    "\b\n" + 
+    "  Example:\n\t\tpagecount MyFile.txt\n\n  Estimates the page count of MyFile.txt\n");
+
+  if (message !== undefined) {
+    sys.puts(message);
+    error_code = 1;
+  }
+  process.exit(error_code);
+};
+
+/* PageCount() analyze the file and displays the results */
+function PageCount(filename) {
+  fs.stat(filename, function (stat_error, stat) {
+    if (stat_error) {
+      USAGE("ERROR: " + filename + ", " + stat_error);
+    }
+
+    if (stat.isFile()) {
+      fs.readFile(filename, 'utf8', function (read_error, content) {
+        var subtotal_words = 0;
+        if (read_error) {
+          USAGE("ERROR: Can't read " + filename + ". " + read_error);
+        }
+        /* Replace all non-letter characters with a single space. */
+        subtotal_words = content.replace(/\W+|\s+/gm,' ').split(' ').length;
+        page_count = (subtotal_words/350);
+        if (Number(page_count).toFixed(0) <= 1) {
+          sys.puts(filename + "(" + subtotal_words + " words): " +
+            Number(page_count * 100).toFixed(0) + "% of one page.");
+        } else {
+          sys.puts(filename + "(" + subtotal_words + " words):" +
+            Number(page_count).toFixed(2) + " pages.");
+        }
+      });
+    } else {
+      USAGE("ERROR: " + filename + " is not a file.");
+    }
+  });
+};
+
+if (process.argv.length < 3) {
+  USAGE();
+}
+
+/* For each file I want to tally up call PageCount() */
+for (var i = 2; i < process.argv.length; i += 1) {
+  PageCount(process.argv[i]);
+}

articles/step-of-conductor/step3.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-var Step = require('step')
+var Step = require('step');
 
 Step(
   function loadData() {

articles/tasks-and-prompts.markdown

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Title: Tasks and Prompts -- Implementing Simple Work Queues
 Author: R. S. Doiel
 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:50:22 GMT
+Node: v0.1.90
+
 
 Sometimes all you really need is orderly execution not blocking I/O to get the job done.  Tasks and prompts is a light weight implementation of the work queue design pattern.