Perl

Crawling web sites with Perl WWW::Mechanize (and Moose)

Posted by gkurts on March 22, 2010 at 2:51 pm

My bank, while I’m very pleased with them overall, has a not-so-hot online banking system. My biggest (and simplest) gripe is the inability to get a daily email with the balance of my checking account. I’ve tried multiple ways with limited success, until I did it in Perl.
First, I outlined the steps required to log [...]

Getting current track information from VLC (using Perl!)

Posted by gkurts on February 9, 2010 at 7:16 pm

So I’ve already done a post on getting track information from Rythmbox, but VLC felt cold and left out, so here it is. The process is pretty much the same, just tweaked a bit for VLC.
First, go into VLC, Tools -> Preferences, click the “All” radio button (near the bottom), Interface, click “Main interfaces” and [...]

Putting a Recently Played Songlist in WordPress Sidebar

Posted by gkurts on January 3, 2010 at 1:39 pm

For no real reason other than saying that I did it, I wanted to have the last 10 songs that I’ve played on my PC listed in the sidebar of my blog. Simple enough..
Here’s what I have: I’m a fan of Last.FM, plus I have about 25Gigs of mp3s that I like to randomize. I [...]