Sat, 03 Sep 2005
The Badger Badger Badger Tour! (2005)
Ubuntu's Jeff Waugh is going to be a very busy man. Before he even gets
to the first O'Reilly EuroOSCON, which is being held in Amsterdam in
October, he's stopping off at a Gnome convention, LUG meetings and we're hoping to get him out for an
evening in London.
Details are a bit slim at the moment, I don't have a venue or a confirmed plan for the evening, but with a little luck we'll get Jeff to talk about Ubuntu, Linux on the desktop and what it's like being Debians agile sibling and then go for food and drink. I'll post an update, with some actual details, as soon as I've got them.
A more detailed version of Jeff's itinerary can be found on the Ubuntu wiki on the Badger Badger Badger Tour page.
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BBC Backstage Competition Extended
While sitting in the BBC backstage session at OpenTech I had an idea for an
entry to the competition. Which I then forgot about. After an email from a
friend recently asking if I'd done anything for it and pointing out I only
had three days left I decided to have a coding day on Saturday and try and
get a prototype working and submitted. And then the
BBC Backstage competition deadline is extended! So now I can go back
to what I'd already planned to do today and procrastinate some more. Thank
you BBC. I think ;)
One of the few bits of code I have written for the competition is a short script to automatically download TV-Anytime data and extract it ready for manipulation. It seems to work fine and it does what I want so I thought I'd share it to lower the amount of work anyone else attempting the competition needs to do.
Update: Thanks to a small code snippet for getting the current date, from Dave Cross, the script is now half the size and just as readable.
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