At 19:30 +0100 18/4/07, Tom Loosemore wrote:
On 18/04/07, Gordon Joly
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At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now
On 19/04/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the one we want you all signed up too.
http://hackday.org
The invitation to the Google Developers Day was a little bit more
informative, and they were 'thrilled' I wanted to come. The hackday page
stresses that my credentials will be
Do you think it's a generation gap thing? Or, like that
recent article I read on DigitalSpy about the results of the
DAB quality survey, people who don't vocalise their concern
about lowering quality just don't fully understand what a
good quality stream should look / sound like?
Hey we¹d be thrilled if you¹d come too! It¹s going to be an absolute blast.
The Yahoo! One in the states last year was really successful and I think
that we can do better. The cool thing this year is that it¹s Yahoo! and the
BBC, there¹s going to be so much going on I was up at Alexandra Palace
Hey Richard,
The language on the site is a bit formal, I know, but really it's
with the best of motives. We want to make sure that people who can
build and make things will be able to come and that they won't be
squeezed out by a bunch of people looking to boost their Linked In
profiles.
Lol! I think you might be a bit old school ;-)
m
On 19/4/07 11:45, oliver wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've signed up, but know whos - am I l33t geek enough :) ?
On 4/19/07, gareth rushgrove [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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We'll I've signed up. I'm now just hoping I
Anyone on the backstage list must be l33t enough ;)
Ian Forrester
Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
BC4 B4, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 02080083965
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Ian Forrester wrote:
Anyone on the backstage list must be l33t enough ;)
Can we hold you to that?
Dave...
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Andrew Bowden wrote:
I'm far better on visual artifacts I must say. Interestingly though a
colleague of mine from BBC News told me that surveys have shown people
are far more likely to put up with a dodgy video picture if the sound is
clean and crisp.
Yes, it's well known (and proved) that
From Wikipedia
Leet or Leetspeak (1337 or 13375p34k) is a writing system used primarily on
the Internet, but nowadays also in most online video games as well,[1] which
uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace proper letters.
I confess I had to look it up, I think I'd better go and
On 4/19/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it's well known (and proved) that you can do what you want with the
picture if the sound is OK.
True but a slight exaggeration - A certain level of video quality still
qualifies as an acceptable threshold, IMO. In addition,
On 4/19/07, oliver wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've signed up, but know whos - am I l33t geek enough :) ?
ha! my thoughts exactly are design-y CSS / HTML -type people welcome at
these sort of events? If not, I'll have to finish working my way through
'Thinking in Java' by June... or
Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
True but a slight exaggeration - A certain level of video quality still
qualifies as an acceptable threshold, IMO. In addition, crystal clear sound
and crystal clear vision are both pretty useless if they're not in sync.
Indeed. But as long as the glitches are small
/me guesses, somehow, that the denizens of this list are somewhat
demographically homogeneous.
I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is already full.
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No way Kim, I'm NOT normal. ;-)
On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:28, Kim Plowright wrote:
/me guesses, somehow, that the denizens of this list are somewhat
demographically homogeneous.
I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is
I've put my name down, my interpretation is anyone's welcome as long
as you are interested in, and capable of understanding, the list of
previous hacks and ideas at http://developer.yahoo.net/hackday, so
that we don't get what yesterday's FOWD conference was like,
marketing types proudly
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and
gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking up
into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery to
have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which would
i'm there, cool!
On 16/04/07, Tom Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've sent an email to the Developer Day address asking if that thank
you for your RSVP email means that I've been accepted. There's only a
few cheap train tickets left, but I'd like to make sure I'm confirmed
before booking!
--
on a macbook here, need to take it back though, has the grime on the pad
issue
On 10/04/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason Cartwright wrote:
I've recently 'switched' [1] (damn you Apple marketing dept!) from an XP
desktop to a Macbook as my main computer. Its been almost
Well - I ruled myself out of the running for this as frankly, I'm great
at drawing, cooking, sewing and making stuff (among other ladylike
pursuits), but rubbish at coding and electrickery.
Tom C left a comment suggesting I find a group of people to team up
with.
So if anyone wants a
On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and
gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking
up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery
to have
Kim -
sure thing! the beauty of hack days is to make stuff - linking tech
with electronics and you know, sewing. :)
besides, i've got a stack of shirts. ;p
- james
On 19 Apr 2007, at 15:13, Kim Plowright wrote:
Well - I ruled myself out of the running for this as frankly, I'm
great
Sounds like a great event. Can any language/technology be used? RoR, Java, C#?
Is all the hacking done on the weekend? Or do people do prep before hand?
When do we find out if we have been accept/invited?
Ben
On 19/04/07, James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kim -
sure thing! the beauty of
Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the fact that I've
not heard mean I'm not in?)
Paul (Long Time Lurker)
On 19/04/07, James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the
On 19/04/07, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
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Even with content
from the BBC, I pay the licence fee so why should I pay in bandwidth as
well?
Because Peer to Peer is the only current scalable way of distributing content.
Server to client just isn't scalable enough.
Server to
Actionscript ?
On 4/19/07, Ben Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like a great event. Can any language/technology be used? RoR,
Java, C#?
Is all the hacking done on the weekend? Or do people do prep before hand?
When do we find out if we have been accept/invited?
Ben
On 19/04/07, James
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack! Then
again, I've never agreed with them on their definition of
I'd love to see some cool stuff hacked with as/apollo/flex/etc.
a sneaking suspicion tells me that we have all the components to step
away from the constrictions of the browser (specifically, dealing
with IE) and instead run platforms which are just that little bit
easier
i was
On 19 Apr 2007, at 16:07, Mutt Baskerville wrote:
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that
the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful
lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack!
Then
Indeed, it's something I as a music tech student have both seen myself and
have been told by tutors - and it makes sense. I remember putting up with
dodgy projections in cinemas because the sound was alright, but the one time
I was watching one of the Pirates films and the centre speaker started
Mutt Baskerville wrote:
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack! Then
again, I've never agreed with them on
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see
that the BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it
gave an awful lot of press to Vista.
The BBC News Technology section is rather more mainstream focused - it's
not The Register. And I think that's reflected in the
Anything you want - anything at all :-)
Once you know you've been accepted you can do as much prep as you like -
it's all good.
m
On 19/4/07 15:48, Ben Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like a great event. Can any language/technology be used? RoR, Java,
C#?
Is all the hacking done on
It¹ll take a few weeks I would imagine before you¹ll hear much the list is
getting blasted at the moment as you¹d expect!
I¹ll post up more information as I know it.
m
On 19/4/07 15:53, Paul Jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the
I think there will be a small but deadly group of XSL developers working
together on some killer web applications.
Ian Forrester
Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
BC4 B4, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 02080083965
Wonder who¹ll be working on that then? ;-)
On 19/4/07 16:44, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there will be a small but deadly group of XSL developers working
together on some killer web applications.
Ian Forrester
Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
BC4 B4, Media Village, 201
Me too.
Mmmm. Now need to decide whether to wear the backstage Tshirt (easily
spotted by others on the list) or the Yahoo Tshirt (just for giggles)
G
On 19/04/07, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm there, cool!
On 16/04/07, Tom Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've sent an email to the
Maybe you could ask Kim to use her l33t s3w1ng sk1llz to mash the two
t-shirts together, 2.0 stylee??
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clearly, both
On 19 Apr 2007, at 17:16, gareth rushgrove wrote:
Me too.
Mmmm. Now need to decide whether to wear the backstage Tshirt (easily
spotted by others on the list) or the Yahoo Tshirt (just for giggles)
G
On 19/04/07, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm there, cool!
On 16/04/07,
I'll send you more stuff if you wear ours!? ;-)
m
On 19/4/07 17:16, gareth rushgrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me too.
Mmmm. Now need to decide whether to wear the backstage Tshirt (easily
spotted by others on the list) or the Yahoo Tshirt (just for giggles)
G
On 19/04/07, John
Tom Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 4/19/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there will be a small but deadly group of XSL developers working
together on some killer web applications.
Absolutely deadly. I'm bringing the revolver. Ian, you bring
candlesticks, and I'll ask
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