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 radio web site every few days and finds all
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.
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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 be
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 that
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
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 information to
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
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 better
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...
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Site: http://dave.org.uk/
Blog:
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,
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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!)
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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
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
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
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
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
[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.
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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
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
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 I was working
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:
SNIP
Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to convert postcodes
to lat/long? It seems to me
Ian Forrester wrote:
Anyone on the backstage list must be l33t enough ;)
Can we hold you to that?
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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
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,
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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 I'll
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
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 list getting places
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.
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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.
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,
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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
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
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
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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 closing
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
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
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 -
Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/2/9 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk:
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
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
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