Paella

The objective of paella.pl is to create a general purpose calendar application in Pure Perl for the terminal. Blog introducing this project and the reason why it is called Paella. (There are more capable calendar applications, so didnt want to be pretentious and call it "Super-Cal") This is a monolithic application, i.e one that is standalone without any dependencies. It has slimmed down versions of DateTime (to work only on YYYYMMDD format dates), Term::ANSIColor, and Term::ReadKey, all built into this single file applicaton. A version may be made using above dependencies if felt necessary.

• Minimal dependencies
• Customisable (yearview, month view, show week number done in Version 0.01)
• Highlightable (done in Version 0.03)
• Import ICS files and appropriate highlighting (done in version 0,05)
• Interactive calendar (done in version 0.04)
• Responsive to screensize changes
• Year views and month views (done in version 0.09)
• Handle RRULES EXDATES and RDATES (started in version 0.09) Paella is not fine grained enough to handle Time...just dates Currently only deals with DAILY, MONTHLY and YEARLY, INTERVAL and COUNT, parameters EXDATES handled RDATES;PERIOD= ignored as I dont get it
• Integrated help pages (TODO)
• Week and Day views (TODO)
• Create iCAL files (TODO)

Year View

Month View

Usage

paella.pl - runs the application with default parameters, loads ics files from a folder called ICS if one exists;

Key bindings

Two modes of operation currently

Mode 'yearView'
		'home'      => focus on today's date;
		't'         => focus on today's date;
		'rightarrow'=> move to next day,
		'leftarrow' => move to previous day,
		'uparrow'   => move to 1 week before,
		'downarrow' => move 1 week later,
		'pagedown'  => move one month later,
		'pageup'    => move back one month,
		'tab'       => move forward one year,
		'shifttab'  => mov back one year,
		'#'         => change modes,
		'Q'         => Quits application,
  
Mode monthView
		'home'      => focus on today's date;
		't'         => focus on today's date;
		'rightarrow'=> move to next day,
		'leftarrow' => move to previous day,
		'uparrow'   => move to 1 week before,
		'downarrow' => move 1 week later,
		'#'         => change modes,
		'Q'         => Quits application,

The month view mode will show more information about the focused date

Blog Trail

The evolution of Paella is punctuated by blogs at various points in its history.

1. Making a Super Cal if Rage Will Stick Ex Paella Down Us
2. Making time to waste.
3. Justifying Embarrassing Errors.