Toolbox Philosophy

摘要

Today, while mulling over what to write for this annual "Web Tools" issue, I happened to get emails from two readers looking for particular tools. One was looking for something that would process thousands of image files in a batch fashion. The other was looking for a way to create a CGI interface to the WHOIS service so that users could check whether a domain name was already taken. To the first reader, I suggested either the ImageMagick package or the NetPBM collection of image-manipulation utilities. To the second, I recommended she write a CGI wrapper around the whois utility.