I've been playing around with lots of RSS, RDF, and Atom code lately in a stealth project (major annoucement soon, Alexander has already seen some of the project), and in testing, I came up with some interesting bits of Perl that I think others will find useful.
So in that vein, attached is a small perl script that will take a feed (specified by
you) and convert it to a MemoDB record that you can read in MemoPad on your Palm device.
It works like this:
Code:
./rss-to-memo --name Plucker --feed http://www.plkr.org/rss.pl
It will either append or create anew, MemoDB.pdb, with the feed of your choice as a record in MemoPad.
It requires a few non-core Perl modules, so you'll have to install those. To do that, just use the following syntax:
Code:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Getopt::Long"'
The Palm-specific modules (Palm::PDB and Palm::Memo) can be found at the
Coldsync homepage. I cooked this up quick, but I could also use the Perl bindings in
pilot-link, but I decided not to, because it requires a bit more work to get the pilot-link Perl bindings installed on most systems.
Simple, and all in 33 lines of code!