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I love Wordpress (hell, I use it for my blog don’t I?) and for a while I’ve been looking for an excuse to add to the community and build a plugin.
Whilst working on a new community blog for the North Lichfield Initiative I found that excuse.
The guy I was training to update the blog [...]

Some of you may have seen my blog post about the Ernest Marples API a few weeks ago, and since then there’s been no slapped wrists from the Post Office and a lot of people voicing their support
There’s also been a Perl helper library courtesy of Andy Armstrong and, as Perl looks a little bit [...]

With the recent publication of the Digital Britain report and Gordon Brown calling on Tim Berners-Lee to help open up access to government data, there’s been a lot of talk about public organisations opening up data.
Most of this has focused around APIs and linked data (something I’m very passionate about already), but there’s much simpler [...]

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 are [...]

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:

Great [...]