It seems that I’ve forgotten everything I ever knew about Perl.
All I wanted to do was write a little Perl script that could be called to queue up informational tweets, and another to send queued tweets which would be called from a crontab every five minutes or so, but I’m having to look up almost every statement in the trusty Camel book. Programming, the slow way.
Update: Finally got the scripts working the way I wanted. I was going to use the Net::Twitter module, but trying to install it just resulted in errors relating to Compress::Zlib::gzopen, so it seemed easier to do things the long way round using LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request. Once I’ve got the scripts plugged in to my crontab and rcX.d scripts, I’ll post them here in case anybody’s trying to work out how to do the same thing.
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