Thursday night was the Perl DateTime BOF, with Dave Rolsky. It was mostly Dave telling folks about the state of the project, rather than much of a planning session. Dave gave a lot of credit to other folks for the work that has been done, but it is abundantly clear to me that Dave made this thing happen, and has done the bulk of the actual work. Sure, he has taken a lot of existing code into what he has done, but the sheer volume of code that Dave has produced is staggering. Many kudos, Dave.
Meanwhile, if I actually get this book finished any time soon, I should actually have some time to work on DateTime stuff some in the coming months. As usual, I didn't get as much work done at the conference as I had planned, having been continually distracted by the darned conference. So, you see, gnat, it's your own fault for putting together such a good conference!
Hi Rich,
How was the BOF? How many people were there? Were there any other DateTime developers at the BOF? Although Dave has done wonders for the DateTime Project let's not forget Flavio. Without his time/expertice the DateTime project would not be where it is at now. BTW when are you comming back to the DateTime project?
Ron Hill
Posted by: Ron Hill on July 17, 2003 11:13 AMYes, Flavio rocks. We would be nowhere without Flavio. His Set::* modules alone are evidence of his genius.
There were about 12 people at the BOF, including 3 of the DateTime developers.
The plan is that I will come back to the DateTime project as soon as I get done with the book that I'm writing, which is consuming all of my time (and dates!) and then some. That is, by the way, Apache Cookbook, which I am finishing up for O'Reilly. It's supposed to be done ... um ... last month.