Once again the TV guide has bowed to feature creep.. New this time is control of the scheduling via a mobile phone!
Just imagine, you're down the pub and you suddenly remember that you've forgotten to set the timer for that new programme you heard about last week. No problem, just connect to the website sat on your home PC and set the timer from your mobile. Nice!
The website is written in C# ASP.NET mobile, and based on the existing code from the main guide, only took a few hours to write. It's designed to be as plain as possible because I get charged by the Mb to surf the web on my mobile at the moment, so minimalistic = less bytes = cheaper!
In setting this up, I discovered something pretty amazing. Not only is Apache now available and reliable enough on Windows, there's a mod for it which lets it serve up ASP.NET. That's great, because IIS on WinXP Mediacentre will only host one website at a time. Add to that the ability for me to control who gets to log onto my home PC via Apache and there's no contention with IIS in my opinion.
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