Monday, March 28, 2005

studying perl lwp modules

I spend about 1.5 hours tonight studying the perl LWP modules, by playing with the HTTP::Request,
HTTP::Headers, HTTP::Response, HTTP::Message modules in my little utitlity 'now'.

'now' is my little perl utility to retrieve the "now playing" items from various online radio websites, including http://sky.fm and http://hitzradio.com/.

It basically gets the html page and print out the current playing title, filtering by regex.
I also pop-up a xmessage window to notify the latest title.

Oh, forget to mention my favoriate online radio site, http://wcpe.com. However, due to the "Server Full" problem, I have not listened to it recently.
I used to have another perl script to retreve the current title playing in wcpe.com. It's broken though.

Anyway, tonight's practice gives me more insight about http procotol, although I claimed to be proficient of it. :)

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

job hunting

don't forget to add statistical computing skills into my resume

R programming