Getting back into the Perl thing
I just started working on a perl script to grab the changes.xml file from weblogs.com. The goal is to have a script that will grab that file and then insert all the data from it into a mySQL database. Then I can query against it to see if blogs I read have been updated in the last hour. In the end I'd like to have it show those up in bold. We'll see how well that all works. Hopefully I'll have some kind of prototype up tomorrow.
The one thing it makes me realize is that there are perl modules to do just about everything. It is really amazing. I use one module to pull down the file, another to rip the data out of the xml file, another to put it into the database. This is definitely one of the things which makes perl so great.
