[Neworleans-pm] Revised timeclock.pl

[Simon Dorfman]

First of all, nice work Dave!  Danke Schön!

I see you hardcoded /home/dave/.timeclock on line 13.

I simply changed that to /Users/simon/.timeclock but I thought I'd point it
out because I'm pretty sure the old version of the script just detected the
home directory and didn't require hard coding of it's path.

Before changing that this was the result:
$ ./timeclock.pl clientname
/home/dave/.timeclock is not a directory


I have two feature ideas:
1. I'd like to be able to charge a different rate for different clients.
Maybe a client config file similar to the client code file you're currently
using would be a good way to implement it.
2. I'd like to enter a comment when starting the clock.  This way, in case I
forget to stop the clock, I can see a comment like "troubleshoot xyz" and
remember what I had started the clock for.

Maybe I'll try to figure out the second one on my own since it should be
pretty easy.  And maybe the first one could be something we try at the next
meeting?

Simon


On 6/16/05 11:30 AM, "Dave Cash" <dave at gnofn.org> wrote:

> Hello, all.
> 
> I've spent some time this week doing some work on timeclock.pl.
> I've reworked a lot of it to make it more configurable and to
> address some of the requests that came up in the meeting.  I've also
> added full documentation, using POD.  So to see the docs, just type
> 
>   perldoc timeclock.pl
> 
> (assuming it's either in the same directory or in your $PATH) and
> you should see some pretty docs.  Please let me know if any of the
> docs are incomplete, incorrect or just downright confusing.
> 
> I did some commenting in broad strokes, but I know I need to add
> more fine detail.  I'll try to do that soon.  For now, here's the
> revised script:
> 
>   http://neworleans.pm.org/code/timeclock-pl.txt
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Dave
> 
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