From daniel at coder.com  Fri Feb  1 15:20:54 2008
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:20:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [kw-pm] MySQL/perl job listing
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0802011818190.18022-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

A recruiter asked to post this job on our list.  Please contact him with
any questions.
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MySQL Expert
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Pervious experience in the Linux/UNIX environment.
Experience architecting/designing databases (preferable MySQL).
Experience with various aspects of database administration, including:
fail-over planning, security, testing, troubleshooting and maintenance.
Shell scripting (Bash, Batch and Perl).

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From roberthpike at yahoo.com  Mon Feb  4 11:12:14 2008
From: roberthpike at yahoo.com (Robert Pike)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:12:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [kw-pm] Date difference
Message-ID: <794494.51223.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

I was trying to use timelocal but ran into a few
issues (from examples and discussions I got off the
perl monks site). Can anyone suggest a good module or
procedure to find the number of days from Jan 1, 1968
to a specified date? The database we use stores dates
as an internal integer (represents number of days
since 01/01/68) and I need to store that number as
opposed to a more user-friendly date string. Thanks up
front for any feedback.

Rob 


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From ceeshek at gmail.com  Mon Feb  4 14:59:10 2008
From: ceeshek at gmail.com (Cees Hek)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:59:10 +1100
Subject: [kw-pm] Date difference
In-Reply-To: <794494.51223.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References: <794494.51223.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <fd8e28ef0802041459l3070ebe2k7be87705a4986ed9@mail.gmail.com>

On Feb 5, 2008 6:12 AM, Robert Pike <roberthpike at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was trying to use timelocal but ran into a few
> issues (from examples and discussions I got off the
> perl monks site). Can anyone suggest a good module or
> procedure to find the number of days from Jan 1, 1968
> to a specified date? The database we use stores dates
> as an internal integer (represents number of days
> since 01/01/68) and I need to store that number as
> opposed to a more user-friendly date string. Thanks up
> front for any feedback.

Hi Robert,

The definitive date module would be DateTime, and the following gets
you your answer.

use DateTime;

my $base = DateTime->new(year => 1968, month => 1, day => 1 );
my $date = DateTime->new( year => $year, month => $month, day => $day );

my $days = $date->delta_days($base)->in_units('days');


However, the older but still useful Date::Calc module has a method for
you that makes it look much easier:

use Date::Calc qw(Delta_Days);

my $days = Delta_Days( 1968, 1, 1, $year, $month, $day);

Although I haven't benchmarked it, my guess would be that Date::Calc
will also be much faster in this case.

Cheers,

Cees Hek

From daniel at coder.com  Thu Feb 21 10:06:45 2008
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:06:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [kw-pm] Tonight's Mongering plan: dinner at Ethel's Lounge
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0802211247020.26788-100000@matrix2.coder.com>

For folks who aren't on the IRC channel: this month is again bad for our
regular presenters, and so instead of a formal presentation, those of us
who are in town and available will meet for dinner and drinks at Ethel's
Lounge at the usual meeting time.

That's 7pm, on King St. at Spring St., uptown.  Hope you can make it.

So: we've not had any technical talks since November.  Fresh blood^W
presenters are always welcome to talk about topics of interest.

For March and onward: what's of interest?  perl 5.10 updates?  SQLite?
Prototypes?  Spend a bit of time on intro talks for teh student
mongers-in-training?  What do you think?

-Daniel