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The Lounge War Stories My Fifty Years Post 303017311 by jgt on Sunday 13th of May 2018 09:47:29 PM

05-13-2018

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My Fifty Years

So there I was in the summer of 1968, 24 years old, single, good job, two year old car with only four payments left, working in the purchasing department of a medium sized manufacturer and getting a free lunch every day with a sales rep. And then they put up an internal job posting for 'Systems Analyst Trainee'.
On Jan 6, 1969 I moved into my new office. My new boss came in with a stack of books, each one about 3 inches thick in heavy post binders.
The Canadian Income Tax Act.
The Federal Sales Tax Act.
The Ontario Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Quebec Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Accountants Reference Manual.
All I had to do for 6 months was read.
In June I talked to my boss about time shared computers, and in August we bought a Teletype ASR35 and arranged a time sharing contract. The minimum billing was about 70 dollars per month (perspective, my house phone was 8 dollars), and for that we had 4k of memory and concurrent access to 8 relative record files each with 100 records of 256 bytes each.
I wrote my first program.

Code:

for i = 1 to 10
print i
next i

Was I now ready for a real application?

To be continued...

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ikiwiki-calendar(1)					      General Commands Manual					       ikiwiki-calendar(1)

NAME

       ikiwiki-calendar - create calendar archive pages

SYNOPSIS

       ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [startyear [endyear]]

DESCRIPTION

       ikiwiki-calendar  creates pages that use the ikiwiki/directive/calendar directive, allowing the archives to be browsed one month at a time,
       with calendar-based navigation.

       You must specify the setup file for your wiki. The pages will be created inside its srcdir, beneath the archivebase directory used  by  the
       calendar plugin (default "archives").

       To control which pages are included on the calendars, a ikiwiki/PageSpec can be specified. The default is all pages, or the pages specified
       by the comments_pagespec setting in the config file. A pagespec can also be specified on the command line. To limit it to only posts  in  a
       blog, use something like "posts/* and !*/Discussion".

       It  defaults  to creating calendar pages for the current year. If you specify a year, it will create pages for that year.  Specify a second
       year to create pages for a span of years.

       Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default.  Use the -f switch to force it to overwrite any existing pages.

CRONTAB

       While this command only needs to be run once a year to update the archive pages for each new year, you are recommended to set up a cron job
       to run it daily, at midnight. Then it will also update the calendars to highlight the current day.

       An example crontab:

	0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion'

TEMPLATES

       This command uses two templates to generate the pages, calendarmonth.tmpl and calendaryear.tmpl.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>

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