Erkki

My left thumb is touching my jaw again. Wait... wrong threa.d

Now you can highlight programmes by entering searches/filters (JavaScript regular expressions are supported). If multiple searches have different color highlights, an in between color will be intrepolated. Similarly, existing filters' colors can be modified. This is all highly experimental, but I hope I'll end up making something usable next steps: reorganize code and make the page work in any state and implement some session saving. this includes: you should be able to "reset" the page to it's original state you should see the same page you last visited when you come back (some state saved in cookies) if you use "save page as" and select "web page, complete" (at least firefox saves dynamically generated HTML when you do that), you should be able to use it offline just as well as online, except the listing data that was not already downloaded will not be available. [*]select times to display... a calendar view that shows for which days there are listings available etc. [*]improve searches / filters (possibly search from not-displayed data)

To anyone who has tried this drag'n'drop thing: do you think it's useful? I'm starting to get the feeling that although it may look cool at first, it would be easier instead of dragging just to have a link/button to click on to add a channel to the table. But that would mean adding lots of links/buttons everywhere... Dragging could still be useful for reordering the table, though.

Heh, just tried to access a BBC url with an AJAX request: IE gives a security warning but will be able to load the page if you click yes; interestingly Firefox doesn't produce any errors but just won't do anything. I guess it isn't allowed to use the XmlHttpRequest for a different host than the current page...

Damn, the competition is only open to UK residents (to win prizes at least). I may still enter though, if I can hack anything together that soon (Sept. 5th)

No, I wasn't aware of that competition (I was only aware that bbc opened some kind of backstage stuff). Thanx a lot for pointing this out, I'll look into it. PS. I just uploaded a new version with greatly improved performance, but right now only the Finnish listings are available for TV1,TV2,MTV3 and Nelonen. Right now my immediate plans with this are: 1) some kind of calendar view to select what date/time to view. 2) rearranging and removing the channels once they have been added. 3) improving the visual style 4) personalising the listings (maybe coloring based on filters) You could actually download this site and use it locally in Firefox -- IE doesn't seem to handle XMLHttpRequest for file:// urls. [edit]just for example, I made it available as a .zip file. Removed some more listing data to make it attachable here. You could use your own XMLTV files, if you follow a certain pattern when naming them. channels_%arbitrary-source-id%.xml for a file that contains only channel listings and %channel-id%_%YYYYMMDD%.xml for listing files split by channel and date. tv.erkki.lap.ee.zip

Updated: http://lap.ee/erkki/tv/ Now with drag'n'drop functionality (drag channels to the table header). Sources: cache/tv_grab_fi.xml (1,16 MB) cache/tv_grab_nl.xml (948 KB) cache/tv_grab_uk_rt.xml (39,9 MB!) I advise not to try the UK source, ass it will take quite a time to parse (the 39,9 MB file will be fetched only once, but completely parsed every time you add a channel) There's gotta be an easy way in XML-tv to split a file by channels... that'd make it faster. Oh yeah, and Firefox is recommended. There are more bugs when viewed in IE.

You can try the initial version now. It includes a sample XMLTV file,but if you have an URL to a different XMLTV file, you can probably use that. http://lap.ee/erkki/tv/ before clicking the "load" button, check "load all immediately" or after the channel list is filled out, click "load all" or a channel name in the channels list to add the listings for that channel for the next 16 hours.

WTF? Fear will install DirectX 9.0c (April). Choosing no will abort the installation. I already fucking have DirectX 9.0c. WTF?

However tempting (or not) it is to write screen scrapers, I decided to take a different, even more AJAX-ified route. There is a tool (and a file format) called XMLTV, which already has some scrapers. I will try to write the TV listings app in JavaScript only, so it doesn't even need to run on a server: you just point it to an XMLTV file and it will import all channels and programmes that are present there. I already have a prototype working. But I haven't found any online sources that output XMLTV -- so I'm using local files for now. In other news: When are computers fast enough? When IDEs are built in JavaScript! http://developer.tibco.com/ http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/05/25.html

DMA Design is just Rockstar North. Rockstar was their publisher at first. I think.

Yes

Kartoffel

This guy: http://www.m90.org/gallery/video/amazingactionscene0-5384.wmv

There's also a French movie where some guys decide to do some robberies to get money for someone's medical care and they move around similarly. I think the activity was called something else there though. [edit]Yamakasi - Les samouraï des temps modernes Anyway, I think Parkour is one of the coolest things ever invented. I wish I could do that.

The link is fine for me.

This absoluetly rocks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sky/clusters/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/bush/clusters/ etc. This clusters together photos for the tag you are interested in based on other tags that they have in common. Or so it seems. [edit] also, photos by "interestingness": http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/2005/07/

I'm playing the PC version now and again the wrong side of the tracks mission had me going nuts. I think I completed it in my 10th attempt or so. Most of the other missions are easier on the PC, though. Except I miss auto aiming a bit. But not much. Playing the PS2 version, i focused on doing the missions, but this time I'll try to do some of the "side-quests" first. Already sprayed all tags... took me some hours with a map. I wonder how long it would have taken without one. I think the PC version is definitely better, but there are some graphic anomalities (flickering things, transparency problems). Maybe it's an AT problem? At least when the graphics card crashes (quite often actually, possibly my PC-s problem), ATI's drivers will reset it and the game continues after half a minute or so (with default brightness restored, but I can change it back with shortcut keys in-game).

my left thumb was supporting my jaw. now it's hovering above the space bar, occasionally pressing it downwards. my right thumb was previously seen somewhere near the page down key, now it's just floating in air. [edit]My right thumb moved to grab the mouse when I wanted to submit the post.

I got to 666, but could have gone on forever. Some guy with no life will probably find out what the max is.

Nice Coach Z impression!

What? Are you laughing at the guy who can't speak English?

Congrats, Chris! Are you going to devote all your time to Shacknews or are you still going to be doing stuff for Thumb, too?

Anglish Englisko Hmm... Englishki sounds better, though

Nice