[backstage] Re: TV Listings Competition : RESULTS!

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas Scott
Congratulations to Mightyv, you guys are worthy winners - much as I'd have loved the top prize, there's no way I could have got anywhere close to what you've accomplished! I'm quite annoyed I never got round to having the TVMap auto-update; I had the data available, but I just had too much

Re: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread Thomas Scott
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, James Mastros wrote: WHAT? I thought the compitition had almost 24 hours to go -- until oct 3rd at midnight, (23:59!) (rereads instructions) Blimey, I hope that's the case, I can add stuff to my prototype. Apologies if I made anyone panic - and thanks for the kind words

Re: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread Thomas Scott
I just wanted to make sure -- I submitted my prototype to the web site last night, but it has not shown up on the web site -- at the bottom of the frontpage, on http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/, or http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/index.xml. Mine's not showed up either, so I think

Re: [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition

2005-09-01 Thread Thomas Scott
(Note to self: enter competition.) In my case, the problem is three-fold: * The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an alien format that was difficult to parse, That's the first problem. Parsing through two files, one containing program descriptions and the other containing