Welcome to Get Me to the Pub Please

Get Me to the Pub Please

By Sue Spence (‎virtualsue‎) from London.pm
Date: Friday, 22 August 2014 15:20
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English


Some busy hobby/leisure communities have an abundance of event information which is not available in a digital calendar form. The Hash House Harriers, a social non-competitive running & beer drinking club, is one of these. London has at least seven of these clubs, which meet at pubs, and it is popular activity world-wide. None of them, as far as I am aware, export calendar data outside of web pages and emails.

I will go through a real-life example of how I used Perl + SQLite + a Google calendar to get London HHH information into a form that anyone could use to keep track of and find events particularly useful for people who make heavy use of mobile devices and tablets, and for HHH enthusiasts visiting the city.


Attended by: Nicholas Clark, steve mynott (‎itz‎), osfameron, Stefan Hornburg (‎Racke‎), Leon Brocard (‎acme‎), Tom Hukins, Kerstin Puschke (‎titanoboa‎), Mihai Pop, Mihai Safta (‎SDCM‎), Alex-P. Natsios (‎Drakevr‎), Ovidiu Satmari (‎ovidiu.satmari‎), Dumitru Negrea, Sue Spence (‎virtualsue‎), Jerome Eteve (‎jeteve‎), Marian Chinciusan (‎ralea1313‎), StrayTaoist, Matthias Zeichmann, Cristina Mavriche (‎suns‎), Zlatin Stanimirov, Filip Andres, Adina Iulia Dumitru, Dmitry Karasik (‎McFist‎), Manol Roujinov, Jussi Kinnula (‎Spot‎), Michael Lush, Neil Hemingway (‎neilh‎), Martin Cermak, Paul Evans (‎LeoNerd‎), Diana Vultur, atoomic, Marc Egea i Sala (‎meis‎), R Geoffrey Avery (‎rGeoffrey‎), Darina Serafimova, Todor Petkov, Simun Kodzoman (‎sime‎), Dominic Humphries (‎djh‎),