Weblog entry #9 for ajt

A while ago Greg McCarroll gave an interesting talk at the London Perl Workshop on the topic of "JFDI". His example lead to the creation of WWW::LiveDepartureBoards.

I later used this as an example topic for a Perl talk to my LUG: Achieving the Impossible with Perl. At the same time I also supplied Greg with a patch.

Since then Network Rail have started to provide a SOAP interface to their running time data, and there is now a new interface Net::NationalRail::LiveDepartureBoards. This has the advantage that it's not a screen scrape, instead it's a SOAP monster...

What I want is a trivial interface, a LiveDepartureBoards::Simple... I suppose now is the time to have a look at them both in detail and see if I can abstract over them to create a drop-dead simple interface that uses either as a back end.