RE: [backstage] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Morris
Am I missing something - how is it not an OS? :) From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 28 January 2010 09:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re:

Re: [backstage] Several powers too far - Digital Economy Bill

2010-01-13 Thread Daniel Morris
Scary! Looks like there's a couple of petitions relating to this on petitions.number10.gov.uk; http://search.petitions.number10.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?ha=1157sc=number10qt=digital+economy+bill Daniel Morris BBC / FMT Vision / 0759532 On 13/01/2010 16:26, David

RE: [backstage] Google Developer Day, Thursday - pintage?

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Morris
I'll be along to that, although might on an early-ish train back... Daniel Morris | Software Engineer BBC Entertainment : Manchester : New Media int. 01 44217 ext. 0161 244 4217 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[backstage] Manchester leg of university tour

2007-02-28 Thread Daniel Morris
, give me an email. A massive thanks to the folks at Backstage for hanging around that day! Daniel Morris | Web Developer BBC Entertainment : Manchester : New Media int. 01 44217 ext. 0161 244 4217

RE: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Morris
I would like to know what percentage of my license fee will go towards funding the proposed iPlayer services which are only to be made available to people stupid enough to be using Windows - so that I can withhold that amount from my payment, or seek a refund of that amount back from the

RE: [backstage] A couple of things including Arrington

2007-02-22 Thread Daniel Morris
Oh no!!! By the time the mic was on and everyone was looking at me I had no idea what I was saying! Arrrgghhh... Daniel Morris | Web Developer BBC Entertainment : Manchester : New Media int. 01 44217 ext. 0161 244 4217

RE: [backstage] Site statistics

2006-12-08 Thread Daniel Morris
Internally, there exists very details stats on this sort of thing, but I have absolutely no idea if it's allowed to be published externally! Daniel Morris | Web Developer BBC Entertainment : Manchester : New Media int. 01 44217 ext

RE: [backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread Daniel Morris
Is it okay for groups outside of london to do the same? GeekUp would love to be associated, will pass on the word to the folks up here... Cheers -dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Kerry Sent: 10 November 2006 13:50 To:

RE: [backstage] Google code search

2006-10-05 Thread Daniel Morris
Found via Slashdot, http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search It certainly looks useful, specially the licence selector but I'm not happy that XSL didn't make the list of languages. Looks similar to http://koders.com Daniel Morris | Web Developer BBC Entertainment

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Morris
REST is a collection of architectural principles [1] rather than a language itself, however APIs still exist for it. There are plenty of AJAX APIs out there. [2] One of the primary purposes of an API is to describe how computer applications and software developers may access a set of (usually

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Morris
Maybe I'm reading more into this than you meant to imply but I think it's a mistake to assume that REST can't scale and that SOAP is required for 'serious' work. Arguably REST scales _better_ than SOAP. Apparently; querying Amazon using REST is 6 times faster than with SOAP [1] There