Browsing the archives for the technology category
A colleague of mine tweeted today that “There are 3 types of Web 2.0 in Government: Social Media, Collaborative Tools & Open Data”. I’m not sure if I agree with him. Since my thoughts are longer than 140 characters, so I’ll blog about it instead. The Wikipedia definition of Web 2.0, which I think is [...]
The following e-mail was sent to councillors Bob Monette, Rainer Bloess and Rob Jellett, who represent the east end of the City of Ottawa, in which I live. I encourage you all to write your councillors in support of Open Data. – Councillor, As a resident of Ottawa’s East End, and as a software developer, [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Everyone! As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a mobile-friendly version of the Government Electronic Directory Service (GEDS) as a little side project. This application parses the results of the Government of Canada’s online phone book into a format that is easier to use on mobile devices like [...]
A rebuttal to a colleague’s warning to not attempt to modify WordPress Templates without knowing what you’re doing.
Just found a nice new utility, Google Safe Browsing Advisories. Google Safe Browsing Advisories are reports as to whether or not a website is considered “suspicious” based on Google’s visits to the site. Suspicious sites seem to be sites that either host, or link to malware. To get the report for your site, visit http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=<your [...]
This morning I received an e-mail from the team at Google Apps, announcing they are discontinuing support for older browsers in order to take advantage of the features available in the more modern versions. This is a bold stance from a company as large as Google. It will force some of their user base to [...]