[kw-pm] Notes from June meeting

[lloyd carr]

I want to sign out the LWP book!
I need it to understand the REST examples in the "Perl for Web Services"
book :-)

Justin's curry was good, thankyou for not showing up Justin ;-)

Harry who? ( With few exceptions, I only read things that have been
rejected by the mass culture )

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:40:31 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Daniel R. Allen <da at coder.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [kw-pm] Notes from June meeting
>
> These are not comprehensive, just URLs and things for wrapup that I was
> thinking about today.
>
> Notes from KW.pm June Meeting
>
> - discussed YAPC::Canada talks, the Matrix, perl on Microsoft
>   (activestate), perl as a teaching language.
>
> - browse and d/l the proceedings CD at:
>   http://coder.com/yapc-canada/2003/proceedings/
>
> - Presentation on "screen-scraping" and automating web-client tasks.
>   Sorry, no slides!
>
>   - LWP / libwww : library for "writing WWW clients", or more common
>     subset of that, retrieving WWW content (LWP::Simple). find it on CPAN.
>
>   - Note- we also have the book "LWP and Perl" in our Library! Ask
>     to borrow it and it's yours.  For a month or two, at least.
>
>   - HTML::TokeParser : parse HTML, simply. Using a parser is much easier
>     than trying to hand-roll regular expressions.  Also on CPAN.
>
>   - WWW::Mechanize : good tool for general screen-scraping. Basically
>     a shell around a number of underlying modules, such as HTML::Form,
>     LWP::Agent, HTTP::Response.  But provides a nice consistant
>     front-end.  Easy to use. Ditto, CPAN.
>
>   - WWW::Mechanize::Shell : Question from Tomas about building the
>     screen-scraping code according to an interactive session on a
>     website.  Lo, and behold, there's a module for it. Guess where.
>
>   - While we discussed the philosophy of learning programming, I
>     installed WWW::Mechanize::Shell.  It needs a buttload of other
>     modules, but once they're installed, it does nearly what Tomas
>     was asking for.
>
>   - Didn't get to legal issues around copying data from peoples' sites.
>     Basically: if there are terms of use, read them and follow them.
>     If you run a site, have easy-to-read terms of use.  Anything else?
>
>   - Next month: mod_perl talk!
>
>
> Happy... er, Harry Potter Day...
> -Daniel
>
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