xskill: A program for skill self-rating

The purpose of the xskill application is to allow our employees to rate their abilities at a wide variety of skills using a GUI interface.

The output of this application is a series of pages (presented in both HTML and PostScript form) called the ``knowledge matrix,'' allowing our users and management to see who has which skills.

• knowmat: Knowledge matrix programs documentation describes the Knowledge Matrix project in general and, in particular, the part implemented in Python with the Tkinter GUI.
• xskill is the Python script that runs the xskill application.
• xskillobjs.py is a collection of objects used by the main script.
• xml_skills.py is a collection of objects that connect to the skills file, which uses an XML document type.
• xml_people.py contains objects that represent the ``people file'', also in XML.
• gen_xml.py is a homemade module for generating XML; it uses a line-folding module named foldifier.py.
• netgroup.py handles identity verification using the Unix netgroups command.
• pageturner.py encapsulates the technique to make a frame that acts like a book with pages that turn. It was written for this application but might be useful separately.
• log.py is my standard object for error logging.
• scan.py is my standard object for stream scanning. It is patterned after an earlier version written in Icon.
• cset.py imitates the functionality of the Icon cset type, and is used by scan.py.
• tkFont.py is a set of font-handling functions written by Fredrik Lundh.
• rcslib.py allows Python programs to perform RCS (Revision Control System) functions, and comes from Guido van Rossum.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 2004/03/07 01:44:17 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/xskill.html