Tag Archives: bbc

iPlayer Flash — Embedded (with a little work)

The BBC has just released Flash stream­ing for iPlayer’s 7 Day Catch-Up fea­ture. This is just about the best news to come out of the fiasco that is iPlayer, and for those of us unwill­ing or unable to install the bandwidth-destroying Kontiki cli­ent it’s the only way we can get our on-demand BBC pro­gram­ming.
Unfortunately, the …

Fri December 14, 2007 – 19:28 | By | Posted in bbc, programming, tubed | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

BBC Made of Fail? No, definitely not.

A couple of days ago I wrote an opin­ion piece on why I feel that being forced to duplic­ate exist­ing soft­ware pro­jects due to an anti­quated and lim­ited infra­struc­ture is a large part of the reason the BBC is fall­ing far behind the rest of the industry in its inter­net offer­ings.
To put this in con­text, …

Mon December 10, 2007 – 11:32 | By | Posted in rants | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Perl on Rails — Why the BBC Fails at the Internet

Perl on Rails is a pro­ject by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that rep­lic­ates the Ruby On Rails MVC frame­work in Perl. They’re obvi­ously rather proud of them­selves, and I under­stand that intern­ally the pro­ject is mak­ing waves. Whilst I applaud the tech­nical achieve­ment of the indi­vidual developers, I deplore …

Sun December 2, 2007 – 10:14 | By seb | Posted in programming, rants | Tagged , , | Comments (21)