Ruby quiz fodder?

[Bil.Kleb]

MIT has put GPSs on their shuttle buses and shows
bus locations via the web so you can minimize
your wait time,

http://shuttletrack.mit.edu/allroutes.php

The backend is Perl and the front end is PHP,

http://shuttletrack.mit.edu/code.php

They offer a challenge: "You think you can do
something more efficiently? Let us know."

Regards,

 

[James Edward Gray II]

MIT has put GPSs on their shuttle buses and shows
bus locations via the web so you can minimize
your wait time,

http://shuttletrack.mit.edu/allroutes.php

The backend is Perl and the front end is PHP,

http://shuttletrack.mit.edu/code.php

They offer a challenge: "You think you can do
something more efficiently? Let us know."

Hmm, I browsed through the source a bit. It's pretty interesting
stuff. The Perl is surprisingly clean and straight forward. I'm not
very familiar with PHP, but I can tell what those files are doing.

Other that making the code much prettier though, I don't have any
clever ideas to revolutionize the process. Does anyone else?

James Edward Gray II