So I guess the world didn’t end. We all survived the Mayan rollover, giggled at those who believed in ancient superstition, and without a hint of irony went on to…
I had an email this evening about parsing Facebook timestamps in Actionscript 3. The format for timestamps is defined in RFC3339 which as I’ve discussed previously, is a profile of…
I’m a great believer that organisations take on the personalities of their founders. This is certainly true of Flash on the beach, an annual gathering of creative and technical innovators…
Open Knowledge Conference 2009 A few weekends ago I gave a short talk about The Computus Engine at the Open Knowledge Conference in London. It was interesting to attend a…
After reviewing what I want to achieve from the project I have identified seven areas I need to work on. Each area will become its own project and is named…
Google Code (for any non-technical visitors) is a free online service run by Google for hosting collaborative open source software projects. It offers simple project management tools for tracking issues,…
There’s a brilliant episode of Yes, Prime Minister in which the British prime minister discusses the effectiveness of a nuclear deterrent with his chief scientific adviser. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE During the exchange…
Now that that I understand the differences between the most common open source software licences I think it’s time to look at which projects I can use to help get…
This week I’ve been investigating the thorny issue of licencing. There is an old programming adage that goes, “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to…