So I haven’t written a post in a while, but doesn’t mean that I have not been rubying in this time. Far from it, I have some irons in some fires and the latest fire is one that I got going using Padrino, and about 4 hours of time.

I basically do not watch broadcast TV at all. Bar the world cup, and other such good footballing things like that. So what I tend to do instead is download just the programmes that I want to watch from any country that broadcasts the show. But I have found it hard to find a service that would keep me informed about the shows that I am interested in, and tell me when a new episode is available.

Come in mytvrss.com great little web app, but doesn’t have info on all the shows that I watch, and they seem slow to respond to requests to add new shows. Then there is tvrage.com (which mytvrss use to get there information by the way), full of more tv information than any one person would require in a life time, but the site is just hard to navigate in my opinion. So I wrote an app that would take the xml feeds from tvrage.com and have them in a way that was much more manageable. At least for me anyway.

You can read more about it here http://github.com/philly-mac/tvrss , seeing as it is free for anyone to use and install locally or on a server. It is not the finished product yet, but it is very usable already, and that with just a few hours of time and ruby.