[Classiccity-pm] Apple TV perl!

[Darrell Golliher]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Paul Keck wrote:

> Any of you perl mongers have an Apple TV?

Not me.  I love most things Apple produces, but the Apple TV makes me  
snore.  Maybe if I hadn't been doing Xbox Media Center for years I might
be more interested-- but I'm not sure about that either.

-d


>
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/04/ 
> appletv_perl_plugin.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
>
>   On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to  
> do them,
>   I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any  
> Perl script
>   you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/ 
> perlbin).
>
>   The idea is this: a lot of people know how to write Perl who  
> don't want to
>   learn to program Cocoa. And you can add new scripts from your normal
>   office work computer (via ssh) but have them all available from  
> Apple TV.
>   You can do date & time, calendars, stock quotes, weather, and so  
> forth.
>   Scrape web pages, subscribe to RSS feeds, whatever.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Paul Keck       pkeck at uga.edu         http://www.arches.uga.edu/~pkeck
> University of Georgia                 http://www.uga.edu/ucns/telecom
> EITS Network Engineering              mailto:pkeck at ediacara.org
>     --Opinions mine.--                Go fighting anomalocaridids!!!
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