Sat, 03 Sep 2005
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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