Reliably Broken

Only just come across the Glow Javascript library that the BBC released under the Apache license a couple of months ago. It looks good, and has excellent API documentation as well as discussions of general usage for the majority of the tools.

In particular it has widgets for auto-complete text inputs, a simple class for validating form input and supports CSS-style selectors for referencing DOM objects.

Being that the BBC is mightily concerned with scheduled transmissions, Glow has an implementation of a timetable for displaying concurrent “tracks” of time data – I think this would complement the Simile timeline library in various situations.

Seeing as I can’t do Javascript without jQuery or getting depressed, Glow is very interesting.

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Jon Udell recently wrote about accessing the BBC programming schedules but was put-off by the lack of time zone information in the iCalendar feeds, which prompted me to fix the quick-and-dirty script I have that generates iCalendar files for the BBC. (I wrote the first, time zone-blind version of my script in England’s Winter and it worked just perfick back then!)

So I fix it. The updated iCalendar files have events with time zone information.

Everyone’s happy.

Jon Udell’s use of Python to explore data manipulation on the Web was one of the reasons I thought I really ought to get stuck into Python.

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