Hmm, maybe that'd be a good lightning talk (want to give a lightning talk at TPC? mail me: gnat-at-oreilly.com).
I've extracted the OSCON schedule as a ton of HTML that will make your browser choke, a ton of XML, and tab-separated values for Excelophiles.
If you can figure out how to get that into a Palm Pilot, please let me know. If you do something cool with it (PDF! SVG! Flash!) let me know. If you do something uncool with it (make an MP3 for each block of time, then create a lowpower FM radio station where you can hear what's currently happening) let me know. If you do something abominable with it (etch it into chocolate and rub it over a dozen nubile youths with cameras rolling) DEFINITELY let met know.
--Nat
Re:I tried...
cwest on 2002-07-18T01:42:16
I was working on some funky Template Toolkit/XPath magic when I got the same error.
To bad because my next evil was going to involve Bot::Pluggable.Re:I tried...
gnat on 2002-07-18T03:50:15
Sorry for that--bloody Windows and its bogus ASCII. Almost all were the uncharacters Microsoft uses to represent slanty quotes. Thanks Bill!Fixed.
--Nat
<p> TUTORIAL OUTLINE: <ul> <li>Introduction <ul> <li>What are references and why are they useful? <li>What kinds of data structures does Perl support? <li>Using a hash as a data structure </ul> <li>Syntax of References <ul>...
Re:XML?!?!?
gnat on 2002-07-18T03:43:46
Wow, you must be an early adopter--I fixed that within minutes of making my post. Lots of ampersands and lt; gt; floating around now. Please do try again--sorry for the inconvenience.--Nat
Re:XML?!?!?
mako132 on 2002-07-18T03:45:41
No, those HTML tags are actually < and > thingies. Whatever you're viewing the XML is converting them back to < and >.
[wait, maybe you selected plaintext or HTML when you submitted your comment...]
But yeah, this XML is basically some database fields and big whopping chunks of text for the descriptions.
Re:XML?!?!?
gnat on 2002-07-18T03:53:08
Yup, it's not rocket science XML here. This is XML as "comma separated values for the new millennium."--Nat
Re:Rooms?
gnat on 2002-07-18T19:05:38
Sorry. cs_rid is the unique identifier for the session. I've added a new field that holds the room name.Programming bug that lead to this: I was asking for e_rms.name but fetchrowhashref gives me back just 'name'.
--Nat
Re:Rooms?
cwest on 2002-07-19T14:25:16
SELECT e_rms.name AS roomname, title.....
Here [1] is a quick little AxKit/XSLT toy that I whipped out that lets you select a session or tutorial and shows you what room it is in on the map. (note: requires an SVG viewer)
Enjoy!
-ubu
[1] http://dahut.hampton.ws/oscon2002/schedule.xml
Re:SVG Toy
gnat on 2002-07-20T05:05:58
Sweet! At least, it was briefly before the SVG viewer threw a shitfit on my iBook:-) Is SVG good for 3d flyby kinda things? I'm picturing being able to zoom through the rooms to see what's on right now
... --Nat
Re:SVG Toy
kingubu on 2002-07-21T05:03:09
gnat writ:
I'm picturing being able to zoom through the rooms to see what's on right now
... What is it about SVG that invites featuritis?
Next you'll want to see a little realtime 3d articulated garden gnome giving the Advanced OO Perl tute...
-ubu
Re:SVG Toy
ask on 2002-07-20T20:29:23
very neat.
The internet quiz show location doesn't work.Re:SVG Toy
kingubu on 2002-07-21T04:53:14
Fixed. Good lookin' out.
-ubu
