Simon Willison’s Weblog

Visualising Radio, pushing, not pulling. The BBC’s new radio player uses Comet over a Flash XMLsocket connection transport, with an ActiveMQ message queue behind the scenes. I’d like to know what server they’re using to broadcast out to the XMLsocket connections.

# 13th January 2009, 12:59 am / activemq, bbc, comet, duncanrobertson, flash, javascript, xmlsocket

BBC Programmes iPhone webapp experiment. More clever BBC hackery from Duncan Robertson, a really classy iPhone web app for viewing the BBC’s TV schedules, built against the BBC Programmes API with source code available.

# 8th December 2008, 6:21 pm / bbc, bbcprogrammes, duncanrobertson, iphone

BBC Programmes via Instant Messenger. Neat jabber hack by Duncan Robertson.

# 2nd November 2008, 3:58 pm / bbc, duncanrobertson, jabber, jabberbot

We’re added some iCal views to BBC Programmes. BBC /programmes is one of the most exciting public facing parts of the BBC’s online offerings.

# 19th July 2008, 11:48 pm / bbc, duncanrobertson, ical, slashprogrammes