Following in the footsteps of the US (http://www.data.gov/), Australia (http://data.australia.gov.au/) and countless others, the UK government have launched their central repository of public data – http://data.gov.uk/.
At first glance it looks well organised. They’ve probably gone a bit overboard with Web 2.0, by including:
- 2.0 colours
- Blog
- RSS feeds
- Bookmark and share tags
- Forum
- Twitter
- Wiki
That aside, the important part is the data. Read more…
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I recently wanted to add a captcha to a simple comments form in a CodeIgniter application. I found that there is a captcha plugin bundled with CodeIgniter that will generate the captcha image, and I came across this excellent blog post http://www.okadadesign.no/blog/?p=276 with a guide to implementation.
The following tutorial builds upon that using custom form validation as well as a model to talk to the database, and like it or loathe it the active record class. So let’s get going.
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In the spirit of doubling my blog posts of 2009, this is just a quick post to test out the “tweet this” wordpress plugin. If all goes well, this should post to twitter. If not they can give me my $0.00 back.
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