James Crooke - Web Developer

Cron for Windows IIS

Posted by James on Friday, January 16th, 2009

This is a slightly updated repost of an article I wrote on my old blog. I have had a few requests from people and one from birf to put it back up so here it is;
First, a lesson in the real implementation of cron…
The crontab command, found in Unix operating systems, is used to schedule [...]

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Introducing “What’s On?”

Posted by James on Friday, May 1st, 2009

Last night I put the finishing touches to my mobile phone widget What’s On?.

The widget collects TV data feeds for all (well, most - 237) UK TV channels currently broadcasting today. Using the widget, you can select your desired channel and date to view the schedule for your selection. The widget also allows you to send a link to the programme details to yourself or a friend - it also gives you the Sky+ code if you want to record it remotely via your mobile phone. You can also keep track of your favourite channels by adding them to your favourites list.

This widget was created for the Betavine Widget Competition 2009 which is being ran by Vodafone. The first prize is a cool £20k, so I thought why not have a crack at that!

You can download/view the “What’s On?” application at http://w0t.info/, Iphone users can view the widget via http://whatson.forbsoft.com/.

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