Oct. 13, 2008 11:10 a.m.
I want to process the output from rss feeds to produce reports that can be helpful for many purposes, including Ecodreamer. I have been working on this quite a bit. The solution outlined below is reasonable for obtaining nice reports of rss news items. The solution is outlines as a series of emails to Michael Iltis.
- Use a front end. See this picture of the tool that I am using.
- Thoughts on creating a perl script to
do some processing to generate useful reports.
- Software engineering principles strongly suggest putting a plan for writing software into English first before attempting to write the software.
- The code highlighted here in black is really powerful perl code. It is amazing how nicely and tersely many things can be done in perl.
- After quite a bit of work I created a script to generate a nice
report, as reported in this email note
to Mike. (The perl script can be saved as an attachment to this
saved Outlook (eml format)
email. Other things are
included in this email as well.)
- Writing perl looks easy, but try writing some good code yourself.
