On Tuesday, I released version 0.02 of Net::NationalRail::LiveDepartureBoards to CPAN. So far, no one has complained. This module is probably of interest only to people in the UK; it looks up which trains are next to arrive/depart from a particular station.
This release was prompted by a patch sent to me by Ian Dash, implementing a filtering feature I was too lazy to write myself. If someone wants to put a fancy GNOME applet around it, I'd be grateful. ;) I think the next step is to add a nicer OO interface.
My original reason for writing the module was to advertise this SOAP API that ATOC publishes - it could easily be wrapped in languages other than Perl. That particular URL was found by inspecting the official widget for Windows Vista.
Posted: 14 Jan 2010 19:41 |
I am not having a good year.
Traditionally, when annoyed, I make extravagant purchases that I may or may not regret later. In this new economic climate, however, I have found a substitute outlet.
Arriving soon at a CPAN mirror near you: Net::NationalRail::LiveDepartureBoards 0.01 - an interface to a SOAP API from ATOC. Given a station code, you can obtain the next few arrivals/departures/both.
This is in hacky Perl, but the module should be easy to translate to other languages which have SOAP libraries.
Posted: 08 Jan 2009 00:00 |
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