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't make any reference to the possibility
of
That's interesting, does anyone else find bbc.co.uk to be any slower
than other sites? I can't imagine why anyone in Durham (where this
commenter said they lived) would have a particularly bad experience with
bbc.co.uk, even JANET users should have fairly good bandwidth links and
our servers
At 11:46 + 30/11/07, Matt Lee wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
Who else is up for this? :-)
How many other people would attend a parallel event, run somewhere
outside London, like.. Manchester?
matt
Or Cardiff?
Gordo
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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't
On 03/12/2007, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't need the BBC to release it.
Yeah, a lot of the comments on that blog post said similar things -
that notwithstanding it would be very helpful for the community if the
BBC shared the source.
I should imagine that running a site the
On 03/12/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 03/12/2007, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't need the BBC to release it.
Yeah, a lot of the comments on that blog post said similar things -
that notwithstanding it would be very helpful for the community if the
BBC shared
On 03/12/2007, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
open sourcing code will only take you so far:
I never mentioned Open Source. I ask for them to make it Free Software. :)
Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual
developers, I deplore the situation that has forced them
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
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 right, of
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.
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My impression is that this is a comment from a nontechnical user. She
says system and talks about download, was she referring to the
iPlayer client? If she is using a Mac, that would explain why it
doesn't work. Maybe she is using Windows and has spyware slowdown
syndrome. Maybe she can't get Real
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/12/podcast_accessi.html
This podcast talks about the tricky subject of accessibility. I ask the
question if we've returned to the days before webstandards and if there was one
thing developers could do now to aid accessibility what would it be?
I
On Monday 03 December 2007 10:38:37 Noah Slater wrote:
I was excited to read about the Perl on Rails framework you have
developed internally:
I was pretty pleased to see this mentioned too, though I was rather surprised
to see it mentioned without any comment on whether it'll be released as
On Monday 03 December 2007 23:37:08 Noah Slater wrote:
I wasn't aware that I had demanded anything from anyone.
Probably the wrong word, my apologies. I'm naff with words, often.
Michael.
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Michael,
Thank you for your reply, all very useful info.
On 03/12/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Demanding people use the phrase free software rather than open source,
however, actually makes life harder for release in my experience, not easier
(not everyone agrees on the
Can I just add if someone would setup a parallel event that would be great!
Matt Lee wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
Who else is up for this? :-)
How many other people would attend a parallel event, run somewhere
outside London, like.. Manchester?
matt
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open sourcing code will only take you so far:
http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fails-at-the-internet/
Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual
developers, I deplore the situation that has forced them to do this.
Just to answer a couple of things
Ian,
frankly that's ridiculous, Matthew's objection was withdrawn and it
was agreed that as no one objected and those present and invited
would like one, the BBC would provide one.
You need to honour that agreement.
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and
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