Design, Citizenship and the City
I’m still frustrated and to a degree baffled by all those otherwise-wonderful sites that are serving up RSS feeds with just headlines and summaries. Where are the rest of the articles?
Sometimes this happens through laziness, sometimes with careful thought and intent but mostly through ignorance and fallacy.
The newly-launched WordPress 2.5 (download; release notes; changelog) has got some great improvements to the WXR import feature that lets you pull a file of posts, pages and comments exported from one WordPress installation into another:
Continue reading ‘Import file attachments and tags with WXR in WordPress 2.5′
Civic hackers MySociety have launched a campaign to encourage Parliament to publish its proposed new laws with semantic XML markup. This will allow people to process, transform, annotate, publish and even just read these bills in ways that make sense to them.
Continue reading ‘Free Our Bills - campaign for semantic markup in Parliamentary bills’
This isn’t going to come as news to any web developer who thinks about it for more than a second. But ask yourself - how many URL fields are there in your applications’ databases that are defined as VARCHAR(255) or similar?
Yesterday, the chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, made a statement to Parliament that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) had lost two data discs containing the personal details of 25 million UK citizens, including in many cases their banking details.The data is the complete database of all UK families with children, and includes names, addresses, dates of birth and the details of 7.25 million bank accounts. The head of HMRC, Paul Gray, has resigned.