Generating Random vCards
Again I found myself wanting a pile of realistic vCards to test with, and decided to write a decent and extendable solution for once (instead of the hilarity of this). A while ago I discovered Barnum, which can generate pseudo-realistic data by containing large data sets of names, street addresses, zip codes and credit card numbers. I extended it a little, adding support for creating an email address from a given name (it looks weird when the contact's name is John Smith but the email is john.doe@bar.com) and generating birth dates, then wrote a tiny script to write valid vCards. Et voilà:
$ ./gen_vcard.py BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 UID:barnum-1107705517 FN:Caleb Barone N:Barone;Caleb;;; BDAY:1955-05-06 EMAIL;TYPE=WORK:cbarone@blanditvelit.eu X-JABBER;TYPE=HOME:cbarone@eratdolore.eu ADR;TYPE=HOME:;;8270 Kahlden Lane;Thompson;CT;06277;USA END:VCARD
If this is useful to anyone else, you'll want Barnum, my patched gen_data.py, and gen_vcard.py.
NP: More Than Music, Murphin
