[sf-lug] perl: Re: Got meeting (up)dates? (web page updating of upcoming meeting dates)

[jim]

    Use cron to calculate a (relatively) rarely-used 
piece of data rather than having PHP burden the CPU 
every time someone accesses the page: of course! 
Thank you! 




On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 02:37 -0800, Michael Paoli wrote:
> > From: jim <jim at well.com>
> > Subject: Re: Got meeting (up)dates? (web page updating of upcoming  
> > meeting dates)
> > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:13:27 -0800
> 
> >     (Just for clarity) I'm assuming that below the
> > expand command after step 4. you've written the
> > contents of the upcoming_meetings file, which is
> > Perl code, yes?
> 
> Yes[1].  Essentially I'd, earlier, done several different iterations of the
> program.
> $ ls -nort upcoming_meetings*
> -rwx------ 1 1003 1977 Apr  2  2011 upcoming_meetings.old
> -rwx------ 1 1003  794 Apr 20  2011  
> upcoming_meetings.Berkeley_Linux_Users_Group
> -rwx------ 1 1003  576 Apr 21  2011 upcoming_meetings.BALUG
> -rwx------ 1 1003  796 Apr 22  2011 upcoming_meetings.BUUG
> -rwx------ 1 1003 1775 Apr 22  2011 upcoming_meetings
> The first was quite crude[2] and didn't use Date::Calc, but a version
> shortly thereafter did[2], and was thus quite a bit better and more
> compact.  Those were for the Berkeley Linux Users Group schedule.  Then
> I did versions for BALUG and BUUG schedules, but I got tired of
> creating separate versions for each UG, so then I made a more
> generalized one that took arguments - that's the one shown and
> demonstrated in [1].
> 
> Why have, e.g. php, recalculate every time the web pages is hit, when
> (in SF-LUG case) that data only need be updated twice a month and could
> be driven by cron?  :-)
> 
> references/excerpts/footnotes:
> 1.
> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2013q1/009838.html
> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2013q1/009841.html
> > From: jim <jim at well.com>
> > Subject: Re: Got meeting (up)dates? (web page updating of upcoming  
> > meeting dates)
> > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:13:27 -0800
> 
> >     (Just for clarity) I'm assuming that below the
> > expand command after step 4. you've written the
> > contents of the upcoming_meetings file, which is
> > Perl code, yes?
> 2. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/berkeleylug/PPemp9zv_Jk/yHNW0B5zlD8J
> 
> 
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