Billy Lin - His contributions to Greasemonkey scripts and other helpful hints.

Hi Keith et al., A quick self-intro, my name is Billy Lin, a FM resident at UBC. I am the resident who had the pleasure of working with Dr. David Page over the last three weeks. I've organized some of what we did here: http://dev.drbillylin.com/oscarwiki. Right now I've put up information about "EmailTextEngine <http://dev.drbillylin.com/oscarwiki/index.php?title=EmailTextEngine>" which is a project enabling emailing or texting patients who have consented to receive such communication directly from the EMR. Thanks for pointing out the downloadURL and updateURL metadata tags. Those would be a good way to keep the scripts in sync especially for authors who wish to share the scripts with the public and maintain them on a public repository. Keith, do you know if the @updateURL has to be just the metadata block? Can I just point it to the same user script file as @downloadURL? For a group practice who wants to keep their private GM scripts in sync across computers and preferably avoid having to install GM scripts on dozens of computers each time a new script comes up, I think somehow syncing the gm_scripts folders on each machine would be a preferred solution. A quick look on Google hasn't yielded much other than the 2009 conversation about the Shell Extension David's saw: http://superuser.com/questions/2675/how-to-sync-greasemonkey-scripts-between-computers. Looks promising but I don't have multiple windows machines to test. I would avoid having a giant script of all scripts that gets loaded on all sorts of unrelated pages on OSCAR though. That could get messy very fast. Just my 2 cents. Cheers! Billy