The latest site from those nice people at My Society is called Hear From Your MP. The idea is simple (like most good ones) – you give them your name, email address and postcode and they add you to a list of people interested in hearing from your local MP. When they get twenty names… Continue reading Hear From Your MP
Author: Dave Cross
Interesting Open Source Books
A couple of interesting books on Open Source Software that I’ve read recently. Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software should be essential reading for anyone involved in an Open Source project (or planning to get involved in an Open Source project). Fogel has been an important contributer to a number of major Open Source projects… Continue reading Interesting Open Source Books
Web Frameworks Night – Report
So last night was the Web Frameworks NIght. A great time had by all. Many thanks to the organisers. We had talks on three frameworks – Catalyst, Django and Ruby on Rails. My overwhelming impression was how similar all three frameworks are. There really seems to be little to differentiate them. As always the Perl… Continue reading Web Frameworks Night – Report
Java Programmers Embrace Ruby
Bruce Tate’s book Beyond Java has been published and there’s quite a lot of publicity for it appearing on the web. For example this article by Chris Adamson on the OnJava site. In the article Adamson interviews a number of well-known Java programmers about the future of Java. The replies seem pretty unanimous that Java’s… Continue reading Java Programmers Embrace Ruby
The New Commentariat
There’s an interesting piece in today’s Guardian about the British political blogging scene. They interview eight people who they consider major political bloggers from the UK. Nice to see that it’s in G2 (the cover story no less) and not the technology section. Of course the downside is that I didn’t already have all of… Continue reading The New Commentariat
Spying on You
In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that I’ve started spying on you all. A couple of days ago I added Google Analytics tracking code to a few sites I run, including this one. So now I can look at loads of pretty graphs telling me who you are, where you are,… Continue reading Spying on You
London Web Frameworks Night (Update)
The London Web Frameworks night has proved to be very popular. So popular, in fact, that the organisers have had to change venue. It will now take place in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. See Dean’s post for more details. This means that signup has been re-opened for the time being. But… Continue reading London Web Frameworks Night (Update)
Mentioned in Dispatches
Oh look. Evidence that people are actually reading this site. A piece from last week was mentioned in the latest Britblog Roundup.
Report Rebekah Wade to the PCC
Tim Ireland reckons it’s about time that Rebekah Wade was taken to task over the lies that The Sun has been telling on its front page over the last few days. I agree with him. If you do to, then why not sign his pledge. And tell all of your friends.
The Sun Tells Lies
And while we’re talking about The Sun, take a look at this picture. It’s the front page of The Sun from Tuesday of this week. The man in the picture is John Tulloch. He was one of the survivors of the 7th July London bombings. The front page is obviously composed in order to make… Continue reading The Sun Tells Lies