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Subject: Re: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage
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On 10/31/06, James
On 10/31/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like this idea a lot!I can imagine we could run the mail archives through a tag cloud maker and generate pretty much everything we need. How cool would it be if peoples names came up? :)
If you want to see what the current tag cloud may look
Wow
that's a awesome find!
Good
stuff, but I would have thought the KML file would be easier to work on because
its simply XML right?
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CartwrightSent: 31 October 2006 15:20To:
So it is... a KMZ is a zipped KML, which is a whole hunk of
loverly parsable XML (in this case 32mb of it).
I didn't know that. Nice.
J
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That
is awesome :)
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MentiSent: 01 November 2006 10:35To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty
slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts
On 10/31/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL
On 10/31/06, James Boardwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
playing on the whole theatrical metaphor:
...command line not chorus line
enter backstage alt *left*
... an open deleteair/delete source production
Not to be a party-pooper but one thing that characterised my initial
impression of
Just a final warning if you want to enter your widgets.
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk
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Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 10/31/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like this idea a lot!
I can imagine we could run the mail archives through a tag cloud maker and
generate pretty much everything we need. How cool would it be if peoples
names came up? :)
If you
Not to be a party-pooper but one thing that characterised my initial impression
of backstage was disappointment at the number of things people were doing that
were NOT open source, especially from some of the more prolific authors here.
I think there is certainly something very different
Hi,
I posted a comment to the widgets competition blog post a number of days
ago, but the comment was never approved and I never heard any response.
Basically, I was asking for clarification on the competition rules -
whether a 'widget' should be something that lives on a desktop (as
It's not just lat and longs, but you can use the height above
sea-leveltoo:
Freeview
transmitters: http://www.ukfree.tv/kmls.php
UK analogue
shutdown/digital switchover tour: http://www.ukfree.tv/kmla.php
Brian Butterworth
www.ukfree.tv
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Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think there is certainly something very different about the
backstage development community compared to other developer
networks. Not a lot of code does get shared, yes I agree. But I
don't believe the reason is because people don't care.
Maybe the
Well there you go then :)
Good stuff!
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Sent: 01 November 2006 12:50
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Subject: RE: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage
T-shirts
Ian you
Actually that's a really good point... I wonder if there's anything we
can do to make that better? What if we could provide some sort of code
repository / version control software for the backstage project that
would help people share?
M
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Hi,
I posted a comment to the widgets competition blog post a number of days
ago, but the comment was never approved and I never heard any response.
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Yep we've been having problems with the blog comments, sorry. I always suggest
the list over comments for now. We do moderate the comments
Thanks for your response, Ian.
I'll post the widget if I do create it...
I look forward to seeing the results of the competition.
Regards,
Premasagar.
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From: Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Like Google's free SVN hosting offering...
http://code.google.com/hosting/
J
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Subject: RE: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and
On 11/1/06, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think there is certainly something very different about the
backstage development community compared to other developer
networks. Not a lot of code does get shared, yes I agree. But I
don't
Hi Ian,
Thanks for your reply and sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
We would love to have LondonSEO associated with the Christmas event
and more then happy to help the organisers in anyway possible.
LondonSEO events usually have a sponsor who picks up the bar tab,
although I'm not
Very very very cool... and not just because my name is on
there! :-)
Ian's use of theword awesome however is a little suspect... especially
when you see this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcashmore/282153124/
He's currently
suggesting we somehow get his new scooter into the shirt
On 11/1/06, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's an implementation of the subject line tag cloud which otherpeople are welcome to copy, mash-up, hack, use on their own mailinglists, etc.
http://paulm.com/inchoate/2006/11/backstage_get_with_the_program.htmlWhat do you do when you want to
Chris Riley wrote, reordered slightly:
In particular I think its useful for highlighting issues the public care
more about. For instance a couple of says ago whilst Pakistan was the
headline, most of us were reading the climate change story.
Are you sure Pakistan was the headline? The climate
Mario rocks.I can't see a place for that scooter on the road, let alone on a t-shirt. sorry Ian. :-)RichE.On 1 Nov 2006, at 11:39, Matthew Cashmore wrote: Very very very cool... and not just because my name is on there! :-) Ian's use of the word awesome however is a little suspect...
Surely, it's more political or philosophical than merely sharing php
code..
the fact is that after ten years or more there's still not a single
successful web authoring application that's publishes accessible
validated code and is used by the public. (in part which explains the
rise of
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 11/1/06, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Standing on the fringes and contributing a little from time to time I
can say that there is not a code sharing atmosphere here. I wonder if
that is due to the tone set by BBC which is about
GeoRSS might be an even better format to work with, since it's can refer to each Wikipedia article in a well defined chunk (an RSS item or Atom entry)Placeopedia, a similar effort from mySociety, offers GeoRSS [http://www.placeopedia.com/data/]It's also should be noted that the copyright status of
Right best make clear what I mean by weather conditions.
From a weather feed description for example from:
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4376.xml
You get:
The forecast for Hartlepool, United Kingdom on Wednesday: sunny
intervals. Max Temp: 8°C (46°F), Min Temp: -2°C
the fact is that after ten years or more there's still not a single
successful web authoring application that's publishes accessible
validated code
I'm not sure that this is fault of the application - all your major
desktop apps, as well as most (mainly open source) CMSes will happily
produce
Jason,
which web2.0 apis are you proposing that produce accessible or even
validating code?
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 1 Nov 2006, at 16:29, Jason Cartwright wrote:
the fact is that after ten years or more there's still not a single
successful web authoring application that's
Right heres a little snippet of code to play with the description from
the weather feeds.
$description = The forecast for Hartlepool, United Kingdom on Wednesday: sunny
intervals. Max Temp: 8°C (46°F), Min Temp: -2°C (28°F), Wind Direction: NW,
Wind Speed: 17mph, Visibility: good,
Hi Matthew,Thanks for your feedback. On the Pakistan thing, I'm not sure, it was just when I glanced at it when writing the mail that stuck in my mind. So you're probably right :o)On your second point about the editorial, completely agree that they shouldn't be ordering stories by popularity (I
Jason,
[Apologies if this is duplicated, but GMail is not indicating clearly
whether this is making it to the list or not. :( ]
I disagree. Web 2.0, and whatever people's interpretations of this
flimsy collection of technologies and concepts is, in my view invariably
shows a shift to
John Wards wrote:
preg_match(|(The forecast for (.*), (.*) on .*): (.*)\.
(.*)|,$description,$match);
I'd make the .*s .*?s (or add a U), just in case it ever had a new entry
added along the lines of Last checked by: Mr. Jones
preg_match_all(| (.*):
Hi John,
The complete list of weather conditions that appear on the BBC Weather
site is as follows:
[desc]
'clear'
'sunny'
'partly cloudy'
'sunny intervals'
'dust storm'
'misty'
'foggy'
'cloudy'
'light showers'
'drizzle'
'light rain'
'heavy
checks balances: validating the BBC
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://news.bbc.co.uk
97 errors which is about par
makes it difficult to consider or discuss the accessibility of BBC
web1.0 product.
suffice it to say they have a process all there own, which awaits an
independent
Quoting Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
preg_match_all(| (.*): (.*),|U,$match[5].,,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
This doesn't catch Sunset, due to you forcing that comma. Try:
'| (.*): (.*)(,|\.|$)|U'
(I can't remember if I put the full stop in there just in case, or if I had
an
personally, I think it's a fabulous experiment in data.
from a news angle? vast amounts of news consumption is people who
don't click a link or read a single story - they go to the homepage to
check if anything 'important' has happened (usually not). That's
editorship, which is different from
John Wards wrote:
Ah it does though as I add a , to the end of the subject which catches the
sunset.
Duh, of course, sorry. Hopefully my other suggestion still stands. :)
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ATB,
Matthew | http://www.dracos.co.uk/
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On 1 Nov 2006, at 20:35, Laurence Samuels wrote:
This sharing of code is all well and good. I support it. But
sending codes along on this email address may obscure some other
messages that are not about code.
Isnt it possible to have a central place where codes could be put
and a forum
Nic James Ferrier wrote:
I don't do the second part (generating the tag cloud) but there are
lots of options:
- do it in xslt:
http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2006/08/08/1155058345613.html
- spit out to some unix pipeline that gens tagclouds (perl?)
- spit out to curl and have curl
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