[backstage] ApacheCon Europe 2009 - 10% discount for BBC Backstage Developers

2009-02-18 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
Hello, here's some great news for everyone who's planning to attend ApacheCon Europe 2009 in Amsterdam (23-27 March). You can get a 10% discount by using the discount code "BBC" when registering. And if you are not planning to attend ApacheCon, well ... then you should. :-) Check out http://www.

Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes

2009-02-18 Thread Iain Wallace
> The last time I needed to do something like this I tried Search first, but > ended up using the A-Z on /programmes as the results were much more what I > was after. The HTML on /programmes is also easy to parse. I don't call using > an XML parser and XPath screen scraping :) It's screen scraping

Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes

2009-02-18 Thread Soulla Stylianou
I know we have a chatbot that tells you what's on the telly built for Backstage eons ago. Don't think its what you're looking for but its fun to ask the chatbot whats on tonight etc :) http://www.daden2.co.uk/chatbots/livebots/charlotte.html Personally I prefer speaking to Halo http://www.daden

Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes

2009-02-18 Thread Martin & Poppy Hatfield
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Andy wrote: > What I'm looking for is a way of sending a query such as "Top Gear" > and getting back "b006mj59" and preferably the name of the programme > incase of partial matches. I did something like this a while ago with yahoo pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/ma