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Thank to you those who have sent me words of encouragement with regards to the Ottawa Garbage Collection iCalendar Project. I decided to change the way the calendars are produced. Instead of having a calendar for each zone (4 zones in total) containing bilingual data, the iCalendar files now produce separate files for each day [...]
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 [...]
Part 1 of the Government of Canada’s Common Look and Feel for the Internet Standard, the Standard on Web Addresses, states that: The institution gives equal treatment to both official languages when naming folders and files that appear in Universal Resource Locators (URLs) and when displaying the content of query strings in URLs that are [...]