[VPM] July Perl Mongers meeting
Darren Duncan
darren at DarrenDuncan.net
Mon Jul 5 17:14:53 CDT 2004
At 12:53 PM -0700 7/5/04, Peter Scott wrote:
>Okay folks, time to decide upon our July 20 meeting. Who has
>something they would like to discuss in front of the group, a topic
>of any length related to Perl?
I think that I offered to do it, about 3 weeks ago.
Another email will be forthcoming on the details shortly.
In brief, though, I thought I would adapt a presentation I gave to
the Victoria Macintosh Users Group 2 years ago about how to make a
simple personal genealogy database using FileMaker Pro (similar
target users as Access, but much better).
The adapted version will use SQLite as the database, and the
interface will be a simple Perl program that uses DBI and
DBD::SQLite. As with the VMUG meeting, I will distribute the
instructions/nodes (and code in this case) in advance (by posting
them to this list; with VMUG it was in the monthly newsletter). You
will be able to try it out and experiment with modifications in
advance. Then at the meeting I will go over the instructions
verbally and demonstrate the program working. I will also field
questions, plus have an interactive session where we can modify the
database or make a different one and write working Perl code to
manipulate it.
I thought of demonstrating my new database abstraction Perl library
too, but that may make things too complicated for the meeting (its
interface is considerably more verbose than DBI, plus it isn't
mature).
Of course, for any live demonstrations to work, I will need access to
the portable computer, and whoever brings it should make sure DBI and
DBD::SQLite is installed and passes its tests. SQLite is trivial to
install, except for the C compiler requirement shared with DBI
itself. Newest perl 5.8 and others recommended, though my
instructions should work with 5.6 too.
-- Darren Duncan
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