Archive for April, 2010

An Open Postcode Geocoding API

Because I needed one for various (non-profit) projects of my own, I’ve put together a small Postcode geocoding web service which collates partial data from various sources into what aims to be a full geocoder / reverse geocoder for UK postcodes.
Now, the term ‘geocoding’ can mean several very subtly different things depending on who you [...]

jQuery Document Meta Plugin

Got some persistent variables you want to pass from the server-side into your jQuery application? If you’ve got lots of complex data then you probably want to pull it in as JSON data, but for a handful of scalar variables it can be nice to just output them in the document head as meta tags.

<meta [...]

What Does The Digital Economy Bill Mean for You

On Wednesday April 7th 2010 a process that would normally involve several weeks or even months of legislative scrutiny was shoe-horned into a two hour House of Commons debate. A debate largely unattended by the vast majority of MPs. What was the debate about? It was about the proposed new Digital Economy Bill which among [...]