[post in progress — I will be fixing it, adding to it, soon]
I just released the NeptuneAPI,

If you have no idea what Neptune is, here is the description from its help pages:

–”Ananke Neptune is a co-operative education information management tool designed to facilitate the exchange of information between the co-operative education institute, employers, students, academic directors, coordinators, and the university. It is an online system designed to streamline the co-op process for all parties involved, thus reducing redundancies and facilitating communication between the parties.”–

Neptune sucks. So I decided to do something about it. I don’t know how I got the idea really, I think I saw an example on thecodeproject.com that mentioned connecting to sites at a time when I was realy frustrated at Neptune.

It didn’t take to long for me to get it working. But I did run into one problem with the HTTPRequest when I was doing POSTs. You have to include your cookies before the data. In fact, the data has to be the last thing in the HTTPRequest. It took me a week of on/off trials to figure that out. I had to set up my own mock php scripts to analyze the interaction my program had with it.

The coolest feature I find in it is making cover letters based on templates for specific jobs. In my mind this is one super easy thing that Neptune should have done. You know, a small button beside each job saying “make cover letter”. It would simply fill in the address and name for you, why do I have to copy the address my self.

I might be making available a copy of a UI analysis me and my teammates did last semester. It showed how bad the Netpune UI is.