Radiofall

Posted: May 26th, 2008 | Author: Andy | Filed under: bbc, ruby | 2 Comments »

Following on from the XMPP stuff, I made a little site that just reads and output what’s playing on BBC radio. It is a toy app at the moment with no real point (and might well fall over), its worth putting on the DAB radio to see the sort of delay it might be experiencing.

mibly.com/radiofall

What is it using I hear you bellow?

  • Ruby – well what else?
  • xmpp4r gem – for connecting to the xmpp server and parsing the messages
  • json gem – for outputting the messages in …. json
  • jQuery – to make all those Ajax requests

The next steps are to add some intelligence into the script, interacting with some APIs or something. I have a few ideas, but it depends upon time and if I can get somebody to help with design.

2 Comments on “Radiofall”

  1. 1 Ben said at 6:23 pm on December 30th, 2009:

    I just stumbled across this, after trying to make what seems like the same thing…

    I didn’t get very far at all, and was interested in seeing this… But the link doesn’t work? Is there any way to see this at all?

    Thanks!

  2. 2 Andy said at 5:10 pm on January 4th, 2010:

    Ah, yes. This was a while ago and have since had a little tidy up. Sorry about that.

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