Re: [backstage] Google Wave

On 09/10/09 20:33, Gary Kirk wrote: Nobody who gets invites from Google is getting invites of their own yet. Not true. The 100,000 people who got invitations on October 1st all had 8 invitations to give away (presumably on the basis that a communication tool is pretty useless unless you know

Re: [backstage] Twittering on

Dave Crossland wrote: > 2009/2/9 Ian Forrester : >> The really cool kids are on both right? > > Given that identi.ca can now supply Twitter and Facebook with messages > automatically itself - just pop in your login details - this isn't as > cool as it sounds. ;p Yeah. Because giving your login de

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

Ian Forrester wrote: > Yeah this is the thing I'm really worried about happening. Ping.fm > currently is my preferred way to do microblogging. Without it, geez > it would be bad news. Surprised no ones created a ping.fm type thing > for the desktop. > > Interesting piece about ping.fm - > http://m

Re: [backstage] BBC Look East HTML rich newsletter

Quoting Andy Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As I read email using mutt on Linux it doesn't even support html let alone css. It will if you add this to ~/.mailcap text/html; lynx -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput Mind you, the fact that it doesn't support HTML by default is

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

Quoting Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 03/12/2007, Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well this only runs the tiniest part of the BBC site. Like most of the myriad clever pieces of code at the BBC :-) Agreed, but it would still be a contribution to the community. You&

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

Quoting Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I should imagine that running a site the size of the BBC could influence the engineering somewhat in way which would be useful/interesting to study. Well this only runs the tiniest part of the BBC site. Like most of the myriad clever pieces of code at

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

Quoting Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, This email is directed at the BBC staffers on the list. I was excited to read about the "Perl on Rails" framework you have developed internally: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.shtml Unfortunately, the post doesn'

RE: [backstage] Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:46:04 +0100

Quoting Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a theory that PC users like to customise more that Mac and Linux users. I suspect you mean "Windows users" there, rather than "PC users". Linux runs on exactly the same PCs as Windows does. And the gap between those and Mac hardware is cl

Re: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins

Matthew Cashmore wrote: Martin - how did you make that? Something along these lines I suspect: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Tom and Matt - thanks

Jeremy Stone wrote: Dear all Before we all get too stuck into DRMagain. Jem (and other people who I've seen do the same thing on this list), You created this message by replying to a message in the DRM thread and changing the subject. Unfortunately, this means that your mail still con

Re: [backstage] DRM does not work... what next?

Stephen Deasey wrote: The BBC has many thousands of hours of programming which it holds sufficient rights to enable it to published on the Internet, DRM-free. If DRM is so distasteful, then why isn't this being done? Surely the BBC should be taking steps to move towards a DRM-free world, if that

[backstage] London.pm Teach In: Session Two Online

Looks like Jonathan has been busy again over the weekend. The audio and video for the second Perl Teach-In session (covering ORM and testing) is now online at http://blip.tv/file/260336 Enjoy, Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http:/

[backstage] Re: [teachin] London.pm Teach In: First session online

Jonathan Tweed wrote: Hi All The first session from the London.pm Teach In is now online. For those of you who use iTunes or an iPod, an enhanced podcast is available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/perlteachin which not only has the audio but also the slides, each one as a separate chapter.

Re: [backstage] London.pm / BBC Backstage Perl Teach-In Day

Lamptey, Derryck wrote: How can I give up my space to someone? My plans (to be there) fell through this afternoon. I recall that someone asked a couple of days ago. Mail me with details. That's why we have a waiting list. Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsub

Re: [backstage] London.pm / BBC Backstage Perl Teach-In Day

David Greaves wrote: Dave Cross wrote: If you're contemplating signing up for this, then you're too late. All 50 places went in less than 48 hours. We're currently taking names for a waiting list, but I really wouldn't hold out too much hope of many of the people on that

Re: [backstage] London.pm / BBC Backstage Perl Teach-In Day

Otu Ekanem wrote: If you're contemplating signing up for this, then you're too late. All 50 places went in less than 48 hours. We're currently taking names for a waiting list, but I really wouldn't hold out too much hope of many of the people on that list getting places. How do we know if we we

Re: [backstage] London.pm / BBC Backstage Perl Teach-In Day

Dave Cross wrote: The London Perl Mongers, together with BBC Backstage have organised a one-day Perl Teach-In day to be held at the BBC Broadcast Centre on Saturday 2nd June. You can get more details (and can sign up) at http://london.pm.org/teach-in/. I'll be running the training, so

[backstage] TVA Feeds

The feeds at http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/ seem to stop on the 28th April. Any chance that someone could prod whatever needs prodding? Cheers, Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/m

[backstage] London.pm / BBC Backstage Perl Teach-In Day

The London Perl Mongers, together with BBC Backstage have organised a one-day Perl Teach-In day to be held at the BBC Broadcast Centre on Saturday 2nd June. You can get more details (and can sign up) at http://london.pm.org/teach-in/. I'll be running the training, so I'll be happy to answer

Re: [backstage] Hack day in London

Ian Forrester wrote: Anyone on the backstage list must be l33t enough ;) Can we hold you to that? Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mai

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

Barry Hunter wrote: [I sent this yesterday, but not from the address subscribed to the list :( ] On 17/11/06, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Peter Bowyer > On 16/11/06, Dave Cross wrote: >> <> >> >> >> Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to con

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

Quoting Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 16/11/06, Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when

[backstage] Postcoder

I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when I was working on Postcoder earlier this year there was lots of talk about releasing the API as part of Backstage

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

Martin Belam wrote: and somebody Sapnish could sort our my errant understanding of Madrid, where I'm not sure if my Real Madrid photos are hovering over their ground or Atleticos - http://www.flickr.com/map/madrid I'm not Spanish, but I can't see any of your photos around the Bernabeu Stadiu

Re: [backstage] Anyone else having trouble accessing backstage?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a server proxy error... Assuming that you're talking about the web site, then I'm seeing exactly the same problem here. Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

[backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue

Just seen this: Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of new media and technology, also announced proposals to put the corporation's entire programme catalogue online for the first time from tomorrow in written archive form, as an "experimental prototype" http://technology.guardian.co

Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

Andrew Bowden wrote: I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for research I am doing for my PhD). Here's the London one: http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/ Very cool, but if I can be pedantic for one second, it looks to me as tho' you have the central line station at

Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

Jonathan Stott wrote: Dom Ramsey wrote: I have the locations of Tube stations on my old mashup - http:// www.dynamite.co.uk/local/ - I keep meaning to add the actual routes in, but I've not had the time. I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for research I am doing for

Re: [backstage] UK Newspaper RSS Feeds

James Day-NM wrote: Thanks Dave - that's great. OPML versions of these directories should be very useful for a number of folks. Have you tried validating the OPML files BTW? One small issue I noticed on each of these 2 OPML files you mentioned was that the date modified element had an extra < in

Re: [backstage] UK Newspaper RSS Feeds

Kosso wrote: [ talking about http://dave.org.uk/newsfeeds/ ] Do you have it in OPML format? ;) Site now has an OPML file for all of the feeds - http://dave.org.uk/newsfeeds/newsfeeds.opml And also files for each individual news source e.g. http://dave.org.uk/newsfeeds/bbc.opml Anything el

Re: [backstage] UK Newspaper RSS Feeds

Kosso wrote: nice list! Thanks. Do you have it in OPML format? ;) Not yet, but it's a obvious next step. Watch this space (well, *that* space!) Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing

[backstage] UK Newspaper RSS Feeds

Slightly off-topic for Backstage but might be of interest to people playing with RSS feeds. Here's a directory of RSS feeds provided by UK national newspapers (oh, and the BBC!) http://dave.org.uk/newsfeeds/ Enjoy, Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscri

Re: [backstage] Invite to the first backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up

Ben Metcalfe wrote: Dear list, The backstage.bbc.co.uk team would like to invite you to the first backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up. When: 6:30pm Monday 12th December 2005 Where: Yorkshire Grey Pub in Langham Street, London Excellent idea. It's just a shame that it clashes with the

Re: [backstage] Patronising

Murray Walker wrote: http://www.pm.org/groups/europe.html although some of the pm groups are a bit vacant (eg, Hull). That will get better. I'm currently working on cleaning up the list of Perl Monger groups. Removing the dead groups. Dave... -- Site: http://dave.org.uk/ Blog: http://bl

Re: [backstage] Auto-tivo...

Leon Brocard wrote: How do you record TV? Leon I wrote up some thoughts. Any corrections, additions and comments are welcome. http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000840.html Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.u

Re: [backstage] Today's TV-Anytime feed?

Hywel Williams wrote: >Hi, >my trusty old server complained to me earlier that it couldn't wget today's tv anytime feed from >http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ feeds/tvradio/.. > >Anyone know what's happened to it? > >Cheers, >Mario. It seems ther

Re: [backstage] 3D?

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:30:05PM +0100, Richard Lockwood wrote: > > My point however that what you and J.P. describe as "chaff" is > neccessary for the evolution and development of the web still holds. > Someone has to pay for all this wonderful "free" content - if you can > come up with a bette

Re: [backstage] 3D >> SVG

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:43:49AM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > >Does anyone know if IE7 will have SVG support? There are (unfortunately) > >a large number of people out there who still use IE, so getting IE to > >support SVG will be crucial to

Re: [backstage] 3D >> SVG

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:36:16PM +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > SVG* is most likely the technology that you seek, as it's accessible > and from w3c. > it's more like 2D plus animation, which maybe 3.5D rather than the > full 4D > many mobile phones are already SVG enabled, and the mozi

Re: [backstage] bbc2mp3

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Wrigley, Ave wrote: > > I thinks Dave Cross' code does a better job of parsing the LA pages, > so I will look into making use of this (if he doesn't mind ;-). Of course I don't mind. That's what it's there for :) It&

Re: Creating New Topics (Was: [backstage] NewsGlobe Update)

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:01:58PM +0100, Graeme Mulvaney wrote: > I think that using a new subject is better - I'm using gmail which auto- > threads them into conversations, it makes life so much easier. It's worth pointing out that gmail's threading model is broken as it ignores the threading he

Creating New Topics (Was: [backstage] NewsGlobe Update)

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:01:30PM +0100, David Burden wrote: [ interesting stuff that had nothing to do with what he was replying to ] David, When creating a new topic of dicussion on this (or any other) mailing list, it's a really good idea to create a completely new email instead of just repl

Re: [backstage] bbc2mp3

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:24:11AM +0100, Wrigley, Ave wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is appropriate for the list, but ... I have developed > a tool for accessing the BBC's "Listen Again" service, so that I can > download programmes and convert them to MP3s. This is a perl app with > a CLI and

Re: [backstage] TV Listings

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:00:47AM -1200, Robert Edgar wrote: > [ I wrote, but Robert stripped the attribution ] > >>The list of channels is in > >>http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat > >>And each individual channel is in (for example) > >>http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat > > Y

Re: [backstage] What's playing now...

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:22:04PM +0100, Richard Lockwood wrote: > Um - it's there for 6Music. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/flash/tickerNew.swf Oh yeah. Flash. That's _really_ useful :) Dave... -- If there's something inside that you wanna say Say it out loud it'll be ok pgpdYq2Dkh2GE.

Re: [backstage] TV Listings

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:01:11AM -1200, Robert Edgar wrote: > I would love to have short TV Schedules as RSS feeds with the level of > information used to create listing likes this one; > http://www.bbcprime.com/asia/schedules.aspx?menu=schedules > > The idea would be to repackage the informatio

[backstage] Listen Again Links

So Backstage has officially launched and in his talk on Saturday Ben[1] asked us to ask for any more data feeds that we might be interested in. So here's my request. Currently I build my BBC streams page (http://dave.org.uk/streams/) by screen scraping the data from the BBC radio web site. This is

Re: [backstage] Simple List Extension Specification

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:49:13AM +0100, Ian Forrester wrote: > > [ in reply to this, which came from me ] > > > What I'd really like to see (from all feed producers, not just the > > BBC) is feeds that really make use of the potential of RDF (i.e. RSS > > 1.0) to add useful information to the it

Re: [backstage] Simple List Extension Specification

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:36:50AM +0100, Ben Metcalfe wrote: > > * What do you think of the Simple List Extension Spec? It's a extension to RSS 2.0 and I tend to avoid RSS 2.0 feeds whenever possible, prefering the semantic richness of RSS 1.0 or the simplicity of Atom. There's nothing here tha

Re: [backstage] Change of URL's for Language news feeds

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:33:30PM +0100, Ian Forrester wrote: > Hi All, > > I just wanted to announce the change of URL for Language News feeds. > > The page http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/LanguageNews?v=tz1 points to > *.rdf named files which have changed to *.xml files now. (This page > will

Re: [SPAM] RE: [backstage] A practical use for RSS traffic feeds

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:23:23PM +0100, Phil Mossop wrote: > Schools have been told it's not PC to use 'brain storming' > (discrimination to the mentally handicapped) so instead we must all > use 'mind mapping.' Er... but mind-mapping is something completely different to brainstorming. Dave...

[backstage] RSS Article

This may be useful to some people out there. I've just published an introductory article to reading RSS feeds. It's at http://mag-sol.com/Articles/article.cgi?art=rss Any comments welcome. Dave... -- Let me see you make decisions / Without your television pgpmA2rrAYqs0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [backstage] BBC radio streams URL list available?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:15:48PM +0100, Tom Kerswill wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > > > http://dave.org.uk/streams/ > > Ah that's a fantastic resource Dave! How does it work? There's a link (at the bottom of the page) to the Perl code that trawls the BBC ra

Re: [backstage] BBC radio streams URL list available?

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:26:02PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a list of static URLs of all the BBC radio streams > that are available - can anyone point me to such a resource? The main > problem I'm having is I want to be able to listen to archived streams > (ie radio fro

[backstage] Open Tech 2005

Saw this mentioned in this week's NTK. http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/ Apparently it will include the official launch of Backstage. See you all there. Dave... -- Stab a sorry heart With your favourite finger pgpnQAuM986ph.pgp Description: PGP signature