[VPM] July Perl Mongers meeting

Peter Scott Peter at PSDT.com
Mon Jul 5 17:50:29 CDT 2004


At 03:14 PM 7/5/2004, Darren Duncan wrote:
>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.

Great, sounds good to me and I can use the below as meeting 
announcement.  Abram, can you get the room please?

>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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