====== Scratching an itch with groovy ======

As I've been working a lot with Java over the past few semesters and will most likely end up developing Java apps once I've got my MSc I've started looking at other, more dynamic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages|languages available for the JVM]]. To make a long story short: I picked [[http://groovy.codehaus.org/|groovy]] and to learn groovy I need to write code in it. This led me to write [[:code:derss:|deRSS]] over the last couple of days which scratches an itch of mine just right and therefore might be useful to others as well.

So, what is deRSS?

<blockquote>deRSS parses RSS 2.0 feeds and downloads files referenced in <enclosure url=””/> or (if not present) <link> elements. To avoid downloading files twice deRSS stores the publication date of the newest downloaded file.</blockquote>

It's simple, fits nicely into my crontab and so far works pretty well. [[:code:derss:|Click here]] to learn more.

{{tag>groovy tools itch}}

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