Radiofall

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.