Permanent URLs for legislation

Quoting Rick Jelliffe

"All documents, views and metadata at all significant levels of granularity and composition should be available in the best formats practical from their own permanent hierarchical URIs.”

As someone with more than a passing interest in legal and regulatory publishing I am in violent agreement with this.

Connecting A to B: APIs or data formats?

Connecting A to B: APIs or data formats?

Mashups, microformats and the mobile web Panel

That's me on the left, standing. Then comes Conor, Ben and Bill.

The panel was good fun. The big takeaway for me was the amazing amount of consensus that microformats are the way to go. Two years ago, I was getting shot down in flames for suggesting that the future of semantic markup lies *inside* existing schemas. Times have changed.

Lefty-woes in tablet land

I am gradually getting a bunch of apps installed on my lenovo x61 under ubuntu. Xournal, CellWriter - that type of stuff. I am increasingly positive about my ability to work productively without a kbd having to be in the mix.

However, being a lefty, the preponderance of gui's that keep navigation/toolbars/scrollbars in places that are awkward for pen use - is a source of irritation.

I want my tree-controls on the rhs and scrollbars on the right.

Grrrr.

Python @ Sun

Frank and Ted now @ Sun. Congrats to all three.

Oops! RSI

Oops! RSI

Connecting A to B

A short treatise on the key business issues that lurk under the technology sounding phrase "Connecting A to B" and a set of questions to ask thyself whilst cogitating same: Connecting A to B - a decision tree approach