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the newest metabroadcat, and quite the pastry chef: adam horwich
This Monday we were all giddy as superstar systems engineer Adam finally joined our ranks after a waiting period that seemed even longer, on all sides, due to spanning across the holidays. Before Adam started, many a promise was made as to how much affection we’d show, including "kissing him all over his face" (probably best I don’t reveal who said that). Thankfully, he had the foresight to bring a home baked world class chocolate cake that arrested our senses above anything else:
I’ve seriously asked Adam whether he’d consider baking ALL the MetaBroadcast cakes. While charmed, I believe he’s chosen to only take that path if others join, and meanwhile stick with baking a better infrastructure for our platform. Fair enough. You can meet Adam on February 2nd from 6pm, and if you’d like to vote for his movie choice, that is Mean Girls. Who knows, it might bring about one of his cakes if he wins ;)
Categories: MetaBroadcast | people
come by on thursday february 2nd and watch the first 2012 movie with us
Time has come again to start the weekend in style: we’ll dim the lights as you take a comfy seat, stretch your legs, pick up a nice drink and immerse yourself in a thrilling story for a couple of hours. Our select cafe cinema has 18 lovely chairs, free entry and many tasty treats, including a surprise cake of famous MetaBroadcast collection. Please make sure you reserve early by getting in touch @gorgeoux, and take a moment to help us decide what the movie will be on February 2nd—poll closes at midnight tonight. We can’t wait to see you!
Categories: MetaBroadcast | office zen
atlas release notes - week to 17th jan
Here are the Atlas release notes for the week to 17th January.
The following items have been deployed to production:
- Added data for 275 commercial radio stations
- Added two tv channels (Sky Living It and Sky Living Loves)
We’ve also been working to prepare a number of significant new features for production release. We’ll announce these once all the data is in place, ready for you to explore and use.
Any questions on any of this, please ask on the Atlas discussion group.
Categories: Atlas | engineering
atlas release notes - fortnight to 10th jan
Happy New Year from all of us here at MetaBroadcast.
In between all the holidays, we’ve been working away on two major improvements to Atlas that we have now deployed to staging for a release to production in the next couple of weeks.
The first of these is annotations in the API.
Annotations allow you to request just the data you require from Atlas, reducing the amount of data that needs to be transferred and processed. This is particularly important in areas such as mobile, where downloading unnecessary data can take a significant amount of time.
Only need basic descriptive data and broadcasts, but not locations and people? Annotations let you request just the bits you require.
The second big thing we’ve been working on is a major remodelling of channels within Atlas. As part of this channels have also been added to the API. Channels can be requested individually or as a complete list. They also know whether they are tv or radio and if they are a variation of another channel.
We’ve also added channel groups for modelling platforms and regions. These are groups of channels that list, for example, all of the channels available on Freeview or Freesat, or the channels available in a region, such as BBC Northern Ireland or ITV Granada. We’ve created a list of these groups for the UK, so lists of channels can now be tailored to a user’s location and platform.
In addition there were a couple of minor fixes to the XMLTV feed, which we’re happy to say seems to be working well. Thanks to everyone for your feedback, support and ideas on the feed. We’ve been listening and responding to as much as we can as we look towards how we can work together to further enhance it over the coming months.
So, a big start to the New Year. Here’s to a big 2012 for Atlas!
Any questions on any of these, please ask on the Atlas discussion group.
Categories: Atlas | engineering
atlas release notes - week to 20th dec
No release notes this week.
We didn’t want to change anything this close to Christmas, so we’re having an informal "code chill".
Have a great Christmas and we’ll kick these off again in the new year.
Categories: Atlas | engineering
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