[PLUG] Topic for tonight at PLUG North -- The Shoddy Script Shootout!

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

At FOSSCON last August Jonathan Simpson gave a great lightning talk
called "Why You Should Publish Your Crappy Script" [1]. Last Thursday,
while chatting on the IRC channel about whether anyone had any ideas
for a talk, I suggested

  We could compare and contrast our crappy scripts.

And so we have tonight's topic -- The Shoddy Script Shootout. The idea
is to share some code you've written with the audience. I've got a few
things to share, and Jon does as well. After that we'll probably just
ask for volunteers, so bring a laptop or some github links. Don't
worry if it's not perfect -- the point is sharing and inspiration.

I often learn a lot from seeing other people's code. In fact, one of
the crappy scripts I'll be sharing -- a way to do ad hoc SQL queries
from the command line -- was inspired by some crappy code someone else
shared with me. 

Walt

1. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_AQWwRYar7Rul32vpXiZ1c8sTsKCQoouMsdjEZuELFo/edit?usp=sharing

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