APM: Last night

[Duncan McGreggor]

Wow, so I guess it's time for our next meeting already! I haven't been 
in touch with David lately and we haven't found a place that would be 
suitable. I've emailed the Brale group in the hopes of finding someone 
that I can talk to about getting the room in the Patapsco building.

So, seeing that the meeting was supposed to be tomorrow and we don't 
have a place and I haven't talked with David yet, are we all cool on a 
postponement? David, is next Thurday good for you to come out and talk 
to us about references?

By the way, I was working on my resume last week, and I went through 
every trouble ticket I have worked on in the past year, classifying them 
as I went. I then saved it as a CSV file. I wanted to find out the 
percentages of the areas I worked on, so I wrote a little snippet in 
perl and I thought you guys might like to play with it (yes, I'm using 
globals... I know, I suck). We can go over it some time if you like.

open(FILE, "Bug List - My History3.csv");
%::vals;
$::tot;

while (<FILE>) {
        chomp;
        $::vals{(split /,/)[1]}++;
        $::tot++;
}
close(FILE);

@keys = sort { $vals{$b} <=> $vals{$a} } keys %::vals;
foreach ( @keys ) {
        print "$::vals{$_} : " . ($::vals{$_}) / $::tot * 100 . " : $_\n";
}

This generated the folloinw list (minus the headers):


*Bugs :    Percent         :   Category*

80 : 18.4757505773672 : "Maintenance"
63 : 14.5496535796767 : "Troubleshooting"
52 : 12.0092378752887 : "Proecess and Documentation"
42 : 9.69976905311778 : "Networking"
41 : 9.46882217090069 : "Internal IT Support"
37 : 8.54503464203233 : "Monitoring and Reporting"
25 : 5.77367205542725 : "Software Development"
23 : 5.31177829099307 : "Software Setup"
18 : 4.15704387990762 : "Security"
14 : 3.23325635103926 : "Systems Engineering"
9 : 2.07852193995381 : "Client Support"
8 : 1.84757505773672 : "Database"
7 : 1.61662817551963 : "Management"
6 : 1.38568129330254 : "Partner Interaction"
5 : 1.15473441108545 : "QA and Testing"
3 : 0.69284064665127 : "Acquisition"

McGreggor, Duncan wrote:

> Thanks for coming out last night, everyone!
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> It was great to get to meet everyone - I look forward to our future 
> meetings :-)
>
> For those of you that couldn't make it, we round the tables hearing 
> what we like to do, what we've done, what we're working on, what we 
> want to learn, and eating chips with vinegar ;-)
>
> We are looking forward to David's talk on perl references, wherein I 
> am sure there will be nuggets for every level of user. I don't know 
> what Dave has in mind, but since there are a few of us who haven't 
> done much perl and really want to learn it, maybe I can make the 
> following suggestions:
>
> 1) perl intro - what is perl good for?
> 2) perl data types -  how do we use variables in perl? what kind of 
> data types does perl have?
> 3) perl references - how and why would we ever want to do this?
>
> A couple of good reads to prepare for this might be the following (in 
> no particular order):
>
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlsyn - Perl syntax: 
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlsyn.html
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perldata - Perl data types: 
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perldata.html
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about 
> references: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlreftut.html
>
> Perl 5.6 Documentation - perlref - Perl references and nested data 
> structures: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlref.html
>
> The O'Reilly "Camel" book, Programming Perl, Chapter 2, "Built-in Data 
> Types"
> The O'Reilly "Camel" book, Programming Perl, Chapter 4, "What is a 
> Reference?"
>
> (I need to take my own advice and read these too!)
>
> I showed a small snippet of code last night and promised that I would 
> send everyone a little script that they could run and tweak, something 
> useful in and of itself as well as something small enough that it can 
> be learned from and played with without too much confusion. Also, a 
> small intro to regular expressions ;-) I will attach it in this email 
> without an extension (in case some of you have mail servers/clients 
> that remove scripts). Caveat: this is an older script, and were I to 
> rewrite it, I would condense it considerably, but in the interest of 
> those just learning, I'll keep it in it's original less obfuscated 
> version ;-)
>
> Jason took pics last night (right Jason? - sorry man, wanted to get a 
> shot of you in the group too :-( but you up and left before I 
> remembered to be that considerate... Bring it next time, and I'll get 
> ya then! ), and I will put those up on the site as soon as I get them.
>
>
> I'm forgetting stuff, I'm sure - but hey, that's what a list is for!
>
> Duncan
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