From the W3C Web SQL specification document (emphasis mine):
This document was on the W3C Recommendation track but specification work has stopped. The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path.
What?
After half a lifetime of dreaming about it, I’ve finally started building a robot. It’s based on a remote controlled tank, an Android mobile phone and a IOIO board which connects the two via USB.
I’ve just moved home and so needed to update the address on my driving license. “Do it online – do it quicker,” says the DVLA website. Well all right, I reply. How naive of me.
You know there’s something seriously wrong when your payslip is three pages long and comes with a two page explanatory leaflet. Payslips are often pretty cryptic but the one I received today was so bad it took me over half an hour to work it out. All I really care about is how much have I earned, how much am I getting and, most importantly, where did the rest go?
The only way I could decipher this mess was to draw a kind of bar chart and fill in the numbers. Once I finished I realised that I had inadvertently created a hugely more readable representation of the information contained in the payslip. So here’s a copy of the original payslip and my effort at an improved version.
I needed to convert some comma-separated data into JSON for a JavaScript project I’m working on. Surprisingly I couldn’t find anything online to do it so I knocked up this script. Hope someone finds it useful.
I made the @trendingtopics Twitter bot to keep me and others up to date on the (often) interesting topics that are being discussed most across the Twitterverse. This is a slightly technical explanation of how it all works.
I’ve just discovered that my laptop touch pad has multitouch, it just needed to be enabled! There are two parts to this process and it will take a few minutes but it’s well worth it in my opinion.
I’ve got a problem and I need some help. I’m building a semantic webby type thing where the web page you are viewing will be augmented with a menu showing other relevant info gathered from elsewhere using a clever algorithm which is already built.
Four days of presentations, workshops & chats have drawn to a close. I’ve had a great time, learned a lot, met interesting people and leave full of ideas and enthusiasm. Full videos of every session will be posted up on the site in due course but in the meantime, here are some of my highlights.
In August I posted about an emergent trend of sharing web addresses by quoting search terms rather than URLs. For instance the PM programme on BBC Radio 4 says “to find our blog, put pm blog into any search engine.” Since then I’ve noticed this pattern in a few other places.