Daily Archives: October 25, 2008

Google Summit: Getting Started

Well this weekend I am here in at the GooglePlex at the Google Mentor Summit. Until two days ago – I had no ideas of the purpose of this meeting – but I knew it would be cool.
But as I traveled to come her – it dawned on me that the essense of the meeting is talking cross-project. I want to make sure to get contact with OLAT, Moodle, DSpace Drupal, Fedora, and Others. We have a LMS/CMS meeting Sunday morning – the discussions has already started with Moodle, DSapace, Sakai and OLAT.
Idea: We need a way for folks to have a badge for paying for open source software. Dang I have so little time!
It is amazing when smart people get in the same space and then start talking.

Comparing dates in PHP coming from MySql

Just a little nugget:

if (strtotime($php_row->end_date) < time()) {
$php_bgcolor = $php_record_row_expired_bgcolor;
}

My version:

print "Updated at:".$track->data(updated_at)."\n";
print "File:".strtotime($track->data(updated_at))."\n";
print "now:".time()."\n";
$diff = time() - strtotime($track->data(updated_at));
print "Diff:".$diff;
$count = $track->data(count);
if ( ! isset($count) ) $count = 0;
// De-bounce
if ( $diff > 5 ) {
$count = $count + 1;
$track->setall( array( "count" => $count  ) ) ;
$track->update();
}

From: http://www.issociate.de/board/goto/926394/Comparing_PHP_Dates_with_MySQL_Dates.html