From The Register, a review of Choose and Book, the NHS internet booking system. Read it and weep…
Here’s a few of my own comments about what they’ve written:-
Sending out a password similar to “admin-password” is bad for security, and random passwords are not exactly rocket science or expensive to generate.
Giving people an option (like appointments […]
This week, Microsoft announced a new feature that’s going into IE8, which seems to be causing a stir amongst web developers.
The idea is that by putting in a meta tag on an HTML page, you can tell it which version of Internet Explorer you’d like it to be rendered like (or by not putting it […]
From the BBC
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the government has a “long way to go” on its IT strategy. He told Commons committee chairmen that public and private firms had to come to terms with IT security issues.
That’s a cute attempt at diversion over this issue. The private sector aren’t perfect, but I’ve yet […]
Some time ago, I blogged about Noserub, Dirk Olbertz’s project aimed ataddressing open social networking. The idea of having open social networking is that instead of having to have a multitude of IDs, platforms and so forth, you can do it all from one ID.
I’ve been watching the presentation from Google about the OpenSocial APIs […]
Blog Offline with Google Gears
I missed the whole Google Gears party, which is a shame really. In the past, I’ve worked on applications that do something similar to Google Gears. I used to know it as spooling.
This offline application allows someone running Google Gears to use their browser to blog, and if they’re offline, it […]
JP Stacey has written an interesting little piece on “progressive enhancement” as opposed to “graceful degradation”:-
Before, if I saw a dropdown on the designs without a submit button or some such, I’d think, well, the HTML won’t have a submit button either, so I need to build the Javascript at the same time and get […]
(quite obscure for non-database developers).
This week, I paid a visit to Microsoft’s offices in Reading to get a peek at what’s in Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5.
I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005, and it was quite an improvement over the 2003 version, and I wasn’t sure what to expect.
For me, the two big differences are in CSS and […]
I downloaded a beta of Apple’s Safari browser which has been newly released for Windows. I’ve heard quite a lot about Safari from Mac fans, so eager to try it.
My first observation is that it looks terrible. I don’t know if this is how it looks on a Mac, but the contrast of the menu/address […]
I’m not particularly wed to a particular software development strategy. I’ve used Microsoft .net technologies, COBOL/IDMS mainframe, PHP, Wordpress and so forth. I use what I think is the best tool for the job.
For most of my work, I use asp.net/c#/sql server. If you are building things for the web that are more "application" than […]
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