Re: Contracts for contractors
On 28 Jun 2003 at 5:15, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:53:13AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote: Bah, duodecimal is the way to go. http://base12.org/ Interesting. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Class::DBI
I'm trying to understand Class::DBI I'm reading the perldoc and TOny Bowden's article on perl.com The problem I have is that I can't see how to build up more complicated queries such as give me the first one hundred book titles Now I am using MySQL which I don't think can limit the number of records returned... but I do have a title number so I could try to do something like give me all the book titles where the titlenumber is 400 and the titlenumber 500 Unfortunately I can't see any way of doing this. Anybody know if I have missed something? I know I can use iterators but the perldoc say that Class::DBI iterators still suck up all the data into memory - which isn't really much use either. Alex Mc Available for java/perl/C++/web development in London, UK or nearby. Apache FOP, Cocoon, Turbine, Struts,XSL:FO, XML, Tomcat, JSP http://www.OWAL.co.uk/
Re: Class::DBI
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Alex McLintock wrote: The problem I have is that I can't see how to build up more complicated queries such as give me the first one hundred book titles Now I am using MySQL which I don't think can limit the number of records returned... but I do have a title number so I could try to do something like Yes it can. From the manual: SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 100; # Retrieve first 100 rows or SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 5,10 # Rows 6-15 The syntax is LIMIT offset, max_rows_to_return The MySQL manual is very good. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ Sign up now
Re: ICFP This Weekend
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ It's up now. It's a race-car optimisation problem. Fairly interesting, as there is lots of research out there. But I so don't have time to actually do it, sigh. So, anyone else trying it out? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... You are in a twisty little maze of Unix versions, all different
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Re: Class::DBI
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:11:43AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: I'm trying to understand Class::DBI I'm reading the perldoc and TOny Bowden's article on perl.com The problem I have is that I can't see how to build up more complicated queries such as give me the first one hundred book titles There's the Cretrieve_from_sql method my @books = Book-retrieve_from_sql(id $lastid ORDER BY id LIMIT 100); Or, documented really nearby to that, Cadd_constructor __PACKAGE__-add_constructor( top100 = id ? ORDER BY id LIMIT 100 ); my @books = Book-top100(0); Of course ordering by id probably isn't correct, but I'm sure you know which column you really want to order on -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ICFP This Weekend
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ It's up now. It's a race-car optimisation problem. Fairly interesting, as there is lots of research out there. But I so don't have time to actually do it, sigh. So, anyone else trying it out? Yes. Me. I'm implementing the whole thing in XS. I've implemented the model, and I've just woken up after sleeping on the problem. I think I have an AI approach. I've realised how easy XS is for little tasks, and how my first XS project (writing a compiler) was rather jumping in at the deep end, and how useless h2xs is. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/
Re: ICFP This Weekend
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:34:53PM +0100, Shevek wrote: I've realised how easy XS is for little tasks, and how my first XS project (writing a compiler) was rather jumping in at the deep end, and how useless h2xs is. But you have to Always begin with h2xs. Always begin with h2xs! ALWAYS BEGIN WITH H2XS! And so I did. Once. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
Share Hotel in Paris during YAPC?
If any London.pm-er is looking to avoid the high cost of hotel rooms in Paris during YAPC::Europe, wishes to share and does not yet have a roommate, please consider this, ...um, Yank. I'll actually be in Paris from 19-26 July, but am most interested in being in a hotel with other perlmongers Tues-Fri nights, 22-25 July. David of the conference organizers reported that many from London.pm will be staying at one location. If you are interested, please hit me back off list. Jim Keenan Brooklyn, NY ny.pm Perl Seminar NY
