cafuego's blog

scrapies

Posted by cafuego on Tuesday 16 December 2008. In categories &php &screen scrape &yarra trams &memcache

For some time now Yarra Trams have had a little form on their website that allows you to get the arrival times for the next three trams for a specific tram service at a specific stop.

Unfortunately their site renders extremely badly on Firefox 3 and they don't provide a documented API, so the only way to get this data is to scrape it by submitting the form on their site and parsing the results.

dishy time lapse

Posted by cafuego on Thursday 4 December 2008. In categories &the dish &webcam &astronomy

A friend pointed me at http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/visiting/parkes/parkeswebcam.html, which I think is rather cool.

re: easy backups

Posted by cafuego on Tuesday 2 December 2008. In categories &open source &backup &time machine

Mary Gardiner wondered about easy backups for Linux, possibly something like Tima Machine. As far as I know, work has been progressing on a project along these lines, called TimeVault.

Unfortuntately Marys blog doesn't allow comments and I don't do LiveJournal, so I'll have to reply via the blog-o-tubes ;-)