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Today marks a coming together (if you’re an idiot, you might call it a synergy), of all the obsessions I’ve blogged about so far – Planning Applications, APIs and Twitter. It’s called TwitterPlan, and it allows you to receive alerts of planning applications in your area via Twitter. It uses the Planning Alerts API and [...]

With the increasing popularity of Twitter and the like, it’s becoming more and more important to keep those characters down with URL shortening services such as is.gd, cli.gs and of course, the ubiquitous TinyURL A lot of these services offer APIs, taking a long url and returning the short url. But a lot of these [...]

Just a quick post to get a bit of knowledge out there about this here petition on the Number 10 website. For years, the Royal Mail (a company which we (being the taxpayer) are the majority shareholders of) have been the sole custodians of something called the PAF (postcode address file), which, amongst other things, [...]

Well, it’s was a busy old day for me yesterday, sitting in the warm at home and establishing myself in the blogosphere, and I’ve been blown away by how much traffic my last post attracted. It was one of the commenters on my last post (Martin Stone) who inspired me to post today. He said: [...]

I will, as promised go into some more advanced coding stuff later on this week, but first, here’s a few tips for people who might not be javascript savvy, or for whatever reason might not have code access to their sites (thanks to Andrew Beeken (@abeeken) from Lincoln City Council) Simply follow these steps and [...]

Ask a council webmaster what service gets used on their site the most, and I’ll bet you £10 they’ll say ‘Planning’. Planning is one of the most controversial subjects that councils (particularly shire districts) have to deal with and almost all councils publish planning application data on their websites. The trouble is, a lot of [...]