PullRank: A Google PageRank Logger

a tool to enable you to log the Google PageRank of a URL

Development History

Background Research

Getting the Tools from Microsoft

Setting Up My Environment

"Hello, Internet Explorer!"

Scanning a Bitmap

Swiping the Screenshot

Timing Issues

Closing Remarks

The Code

View the CVS Repository

Downloads

I developed PullRank on a Dell Inspiron 4100 running Windows 2000. Thus, after I downloaded the necessary tools from Microsoft, I added the following directories to my %PATH% variable

C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322
C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin

so I could run my build scripts from the command line. If you do not know how to set an environment variable, do: Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables and append these directories to your System Variable named PATH (directories should be separated with semicolons).

For a text editor, I decided to use trusty old Emacs. Believe it or not, I was even able to find a C# mode for Emacs so that the font-highlighting would be correct. (I used Version 3.0 of the C# mode because it was the newest version with a readme.txt that contained installation instructions.)

The next trick was to set up the correct directory structure for my project. Since I'm mainly a Java programmer, I decided to try to adapt my standard organization scheme for Java projects to the PullRank project:

pullrank\build.bat: script to build pullrank.exe
pullrank\clean.bat: script to clear files generated by other build scripts
pullrank\src\: source code directory
pullrank\src\pullrank\: directory for C# source files in the pullrank namespace
pullrank\lib\: directory for additional libraries
pullrank\debug\: directory for generated files

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