Archive for July, 2008

Full UK Postcode Database for Free

Update: April 2010
This post was originally publish in 2008. Things have changed. a lot. Read on.
Ordnance Survey have open sourced a huge chunk of their data. This hasn’t been widely publicised , but the full set of geodata for all UK postcodes is available for free from OS OpenData. For geocoding UK postcodes it’s the [...]

OMGWTFBBC: This is how “Hackers” Steal Software

Below, I share with you an excerpt from quite possibly one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV this year. These guys are real hustlers for sure. They certainly know what’s up.

And there was me using BitTorrent and Rapidshare to download installerz, keygenz and serialz. If only i’d known that I could just drag [...]

An IE7 Bug That Returns MSIE 6.0 User Agent String

IE7, don’t you just love it? What they gave us with one had in terms of CSS actually sort of working they took away with some of the stupidest niggly little bugs ever. Here’s another potentially large one i’m stumbled right into recently.
If your user agent string is more than 260 characters in length then [...]

jQuery ui.tabs, Themeroller and .ui-tabs-nav-item

There currently an inconsistency between the jQuery UI tabs plugin and the CSS generated by Themeroller

The CSS includes rules for “.ui-tabs-nav-item” but these classes are never added to the list items by the plugin. Because they are unnecessary.
Simply changing the rules to “.ui-tabs-nav li” they way they should be brings it all into line again. [...]

jQuery.getScript() does not cache

It occurred to me today that when using jQuery’s handy little .getScript method that each script request is appended by a timestamp appended to the querystring. This is great. A lot of the time this is exactly what you want as it ensures that no browser will ever serve up it’s own cache in preference [...]