Here, here, don't beat on me any more! I give up, I give up...I can no longer keep up with all the journal entries just by watching the Top 10 like a hawk. Either my life has become too busy or else there's just way too much volume now.
Now, I have to go look at my settings and see if I can get a notification for every journal entry that's posted, or if I have to make everybody my friend for that. (I like friends. That wouldn't be so terrible, I guess.)
I broke down and ordered the Wolf Book at Borders. (I realize that Bookpool has lower prices, but I'm a damn fool with no credit cards or checking account. Besides, I feel guilty about always going there and reading their comic books.) Hopefully this will help me advance my Perl-fu to the next level.
I should probably do it up in SOAP tho, since then it won't be fragile HTML-scraping.
Aren't there already CPAN modules for talking to use.perl.org?
Re:Journals
jmm on 2002-03-18T15:19:12
That gets the journal entries, but it doesn't find the replies. Especially on Monday, you can get replies to an entry that was made a few days ago, long after you read the original entry itself.Re:Journals
jdavidb on 2002-03-18T22:28:43
It'd be cool to have a way to "tag" an interesting journal entry (or articles in general) and receive messages whenever a comment is posted. Already, journal writers get a message for any comment posted, even replies to comments from other people. I think.
So, the question is, does "tagging" scale? Obviously, on slashdot, it could shut the whole world down if you allowed it on any article in general; hmmm... given that most articles would be tagged toward the end of the initial furor, that might not be too bad. Very few comments are posted 24-48 hours after the article runs -- but if they are, some people would like to be notified.
But for journals this seems like a neat idea. For here, at least.
I'm sorry, pudge, I'll quit having ideas!
:) Re:Journals
koschei on 2002-03-19T03:59:11
For the parent of the article to which I reply: the module in question is WWW::UsePerl::Journal.
I'm slowly getting around to making some modifications so that it gets replies as well as the articles.
The problem of making an emailer of journals is the replies - as jmm points out, they don't spring into life with the post to the journal, they accrete.
So my journal mailer (available online) uses a modified version of WWW::UsePerl::Journal where the recentarray function returns the list of articles on page 2 of all recent posts rather than page 1.
Means I'm a few days behind, but it seems to work.
