A few months ago I moved this site to another server. At that point all of the "planets" that I was hosting on theplanetarium.org stopped working too because the software that I was using to build them wasn't installed on the new server. And installing it was going to be a bit of a nightmare.
But over the last few days I've written a simple system that does much the same thing. You can read more of the technical details over at my use.perl blog (which is, of course, one of the source aggregated into planet davorg).
Planet davorg is already back online. My other planets should be back over the next few days. Now I have the software, it's just a case of writing a few configuration files.
Of course, once you start aggregating stuff like this, you run into the data repetition problems that Paul Mison mentioned last week. I should be able to use the same software (or something based on it) to easily offer readers a choice of feeds containing just the content they are interested in.
But over the last few days I've written a simple system that does much the same thing. You can read more of the technical details over at my use.perl blog (which is, of course, one of the source aggregated into planet davorg).
Planet davorg is already back online. My other planets should be back over the next few days. Now I have the software, it's just a case of writing a few configuration files.
Of course, once you start aggregating stuff like this, you run into the data repetition problems that Paul Mison mentioned last week. I should be able to use the same software (or something based on it) to easily offer readers a choice of feeds containing just the content they are interested in.
I will definitly be having a peek perlanet, seems like a far more elegant solution than the set of scripts that creates my agrigated page atm.