There was a programmer's job being advertised at BBC Radio and Music Interactive in London, in the team where I work. It involves data munging XML, digital radio and other interesting technologies, and involves programming in Python, Perl or Java. Applications have now closed.
Here are some things our department has done that have been written about in public:
This weekend I'm at EuroFoo, and I've managed to find some happy hacking time. Jim Ley and Dan Brickley are around, and they've been nudging me into fixing up and releasing some old code.
Firstly, I have a bunch of old RDF photo annotation demos that had bitrotted quite badly due to new releases of Wordnet in debian. All but one of those are now working again. This will make Jim happy.
Secondly, I've been trying for ages to finish a rewrite of my RDF crawler in Python. It's got a much nicer architecture than the old one, being based on a pipeline of optional processors implementing smushing, FOAF mbox normalisation and interfaces to Joseki and various other storage mechanisms. I've stalled, so here's the work in progress. It requires python 2.3, Redland and Twisted. It will start from one or more URLs passed on the command line, and follow seeAlsos until it can find no more. This will make Dan happy.
For my dad's 60th birthday, my family and I produced a print book of memories and photographs from his life. I typeset it using OpenOffice 1.1 and sent it to the printers as PDF, which worked just fine. Today I've been creating an online version from the original document.
Although the layout was quite simple (two columns of text and images), the automatic HTML export was pretty bad - full of ugly FONT tags and with the images in all the wrong places. I ended up starting again from scratch, hand-producing XHTML and CSS with nothing but a text editor and pasting the text in from the original.
The resulting HTML is valid XHTML 1.1 strict, and degrades nicely in lynx. I've not yet been able to check it in many other browsers, but it seems to look OK in IE6 running under win4lin (I don't have any machines natively running Windows).
I used to shy away from frontend web work, finding it awfully fiddly and dull. Over the last year or two I've discovered that making simple semantic HTML and styling it with CSS can be quite a satisfying activity.