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[RoundTower]

cheers MrWooster, very helpful. I'm definitely looking for somewhere with an easy commute to work, but that might be a lot of places (Central, Piccadilly, Victoria, Jubilee lines all go nearby). So far I was looking at West London, but could really go anywhere.

[MrWooster]

RIP Steve, apple will never be the same again.

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[MrWooster]

Originally Posted by RoundTower

cheers MrWooster, very helpful. I'm definitely looking for somewhere with an easy commute to work, but that might be a lot of places (Central, Piccadilly, Victoria, Jubilee lines all go nearby). So far I was looking at West London, but could really go anywhere.

West London is a great place to live, especially if you are young / like going out lots.

As far as commute to work, as long as you are near a tube line then you should be ok, but... is worth remembering that the London underground sucks. You will probably find that an average of 1-2 times per month you will be unable to take the underground for a variety of reasons... (too cold - ice on track, too hot - cables sag, to wet - flooding in the tunnels, drivers strike - happens about once every couple of months, and the all time classic - signal failure - almost a daily occurance).

Also, some of the lines are very overcrowded during commuting hours, the worst ones being the District and Northern. The Victoria is quite bad too, but only in places.

To be honest, its all fun and games... would be very boring if you could get the underground to work every day

[MrWooster]

Just realised that the above post makes London transport sound horrific... its not that bad, but worth remembering that it doesnt always run like clockwork....

[RoundTower]

interesting, I've never had problems with the Tube as a tourist but of course I wasn't relying on it in the same way. I might just get a bike, I cycle everywhere here and won't need to wear a suit or anything.

[MrWooster]

Ye, cycling is a good idea.

[daveT]

I showed a site I am currently creating to a friend, and she asked me why the page kept jumping to the top of the screen. Mind that much of it is still in Lorem Ipsum, so this may be more illusion than an actual problem.

But I thought about this illusion a bit and I figured out that one way of dealing with this "issue" is to make the navigation menu, which sits on the left, more static.

Suppose I scrolling down the page, I click on the link, and now the next page loads. What I would like to attempt is that the navigation menu stays and the rest of the page loads, creating the illusion of an AJAX-style web site, but of course it can't be AJAX because I want every page to have a unique url and I don't want to use javaScript to make this site function correctly.

Of course, the solution has to function so that the whole nav menu isn't lost at -100px at the next page, so I am very confused at how this would work out, if at all. Since the next page would jump to the top but the nav menu stays in it's position, I don't think this would be a usable solution.

Anyways, I thought this was an interesting problem and one that probably isn't practical in any real sense, but I would like to know if anyone has any ideas on how to make this effective.

[Shoe Lace]

Google for "css sticky navigation". It's a pretty common bit of functionality that a lot of sites have.

[kyleb]

Question: mlb.tv is a site that uses a proprietary flash player to stream baseball games, both live and archived. (Let's assume I'm only interested in working with archived video for this project, though I don't know if it changes much.)

I want to write a script that goes to each the videos with a URL like this:

http://mlb.mlb.com/shared/flash/medi...=true&team=mlb

And figure out where the video file actually is for downloading; I basically want to create an offline repository of baseball games. I tried to figure it out using Fiddler2, but it wasn't too successful.

I know this is possible because there are MLB teams using an application that has instant access to baseball games from local storage. More on that later, because I have more questions assuming we can get this one solved.

[daveT]

Originally Posted by Shoe Lace

Google for "css sticky navigation". It's a pretty common bit of functionality that a lot of sites have.

The nav menu in question is like 500px high. In other words, you can't see the entire thing on one screen.

[_dave_]

Originally Posted by kyleb

Question: mlb.tv is a site that uses a proprietary flash player to stream baseball games, both live and archived. (Let's assume I'm only interested in working with archived video for this project, though I don't know if it changes much.)

I want to write a script that goes to each the videos with a URL like this:

http://mlb.mlb.com/shared/flash/medi...=true&team=mlb

And figure out where the video file actually is for downloading; I basically want to create an offline repository of baseball games. I tried to figure it out using Fiddler2, but it wasn't too successful.

I know this is possible because there are MLB teams using an application that has instant access to baseball games from local storage. More on that later, because I have more questions assuming we can get this one solved.

have a look at videodownloadhelper (a firefox extension) - it seems very good at figuring out and downloading streaming flash files.

[greg nice]

Originally Posted by _dave_

have a look at videodownloadhelper (a firefox extension) - it seems very good at figuring out and downloading streaming flash files.

+1, i too use DownloadHelper when i want to rip flash videos from sites

in the past i used a plugin called Orbit or something

[kyleb]

Yeah, but this isn't a simple flash video. It's a single SWF file that streams videos from somewhere in the back-end. Still I'll check it out. I decompiled the main SWF and got a 10,000 line main function. areyou****ingkiddingme.png

[kyleb]

Yeah no luck.

[_dave_]

I can't even view it, seems to want me to pay