The RSS aggregator that I've been talking about is moving along well.
There's one catch. It's running on IIS and it seems to drive the CPU usage to 100% whenever it runs. Ack.
The following modules are loaded via use statements in my app:
Of course, this means that there's more behind the scenes (like HTML::Template for CGI::App). I think my biggest problem was that, for every feed in the config file I was creating a new XML::RSS object. I've changed that to limit only the feeds that are to be displayed. I've also added the feed title to the config file so I don't have to load any feeds on the customization screen.
I'm considering further optimization by pre-parsing the feeds - but, since the user can select an arbitrary "max items" number, I'll have to generate one for 1..scalar @items. But that would eliminate the need to load XML::RSS and create a new object per feed.
I still need to make some other changes like:
