[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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