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2013

• Open Data Maker Night London No 3 - Tuesday 16th July
  Mon, Jul 8, 2013
• Git (and Github) for Data
  Tue, Jul 2, 2013
• data.okfn.org - update no. 1
  Tue, May 28, 2013
• Update on PublicBodies.org - a URL for every part of Government
  Wed, May 1, 2013
• Quick and Dirty Analysis on Large CSVs
  Thu, Apr 11, 2013
• Cleaning up Greater London Authority Spending (for OpenSpending)
  Wed, Apr 3, 2013
• Progress on the Data Explorer
  Mon, Mar 18, 2013
• Recline JS - Componentization and a Smaller Core
  Tue, Feb 26, 2013
• Archiving Twitter the Hacky Way
  Tue, Jan 8, 2013

2012

• WikipediaJS - accessing Wikipedia article data through Javascript
  Mon, Sep 10, 2012
• Timeliner - Make Nice Timelines Fast
  Wed, Aug 8, 2012
• The Data Transformer - Cleaning Up Data in the Browser
  Tue, Jul 31, 2012
• Problems with RecordMyDesktop and a Command Line Alternative
  Sat, Jul 28, 2012

2011

• ANN: PyWordpress - Python Wordpress Library using the Wordpress XML-RPC API
  Thu, Dec 29, 2011
• Shuttleworth Fellowship Bi-Annual Review
  Fri, Nov 25, 2011
• Tabular Data Formats
  Sun, Oct 9, 2011
• Javascript Libraries for Working with Data
  Sun, May 8, 2011
• Javascript Templating and Frameworks
  Sun, Apr 3, 2011
• hg-git and pushing to git from mercurial
  Sat, Feb 12, 2011
• Datapkg 0.8 Released
  Wed, Feb 9, 2011
• Introducing YourTopia - Development beyond GDP
  Wed, Jan 12, 2011
• OpenHDI: Open Human Development Index
  Fri, Jan 7, 2011
• PyWordpress - Python Library for Wordpress
  Wed, Jan 5, 2011

2010

• CKAN v1.2 Released together with Datapkg v0.7
  Tue, Nov 30, 2010
• Datapkg 0.7 Released
  Mon, Nov 29, 2010
• Open-Source Annotation Toolkit for Inline, Online Web Annotation
  Thu, Nov 11, 2010
• Where Does My Money Go? Spending Explorer using Protovis and jQuery
  Wed, Oct 27, 2010
• Datapkg v0.7 Beta Released
  Thu, Oct 14, 2010
• Versioning / Revisioning for Data, Databases and Domain Models: Copy-on-Write and Diffs
  Fri, Sep 10, 2010
• Set Trackpad Sensitivity for Thinkpad on Ubuntu
  Sun, Jul 11, 2010
• Lenovo X61s Battery Life
  Fri, Apr 30, 2010
• Policy Recommendations in the Area of Innovation, Creativity and IP
  Mon, Mar 8, 2010
• Howto Install 4store
  Mon, Feb 8, 2010

2009

• Using Deliverance as Middleware (with Proxying)
  Mon, Dec 21, 2009
• The Mac Premium
  Mon, Nov 30, 2009
• The Knowledge Commons is Different
  Tue, Oct 13, 2009
• Reverse Proxying to Wordpress.com
  Fri, Oct 2, 2009
• SQLAlchemy Migrate with Pylons
  Mon, Jul 27, 2009
• Algorithm Speed and the Challenge of Large Datasets
  Mon, Jun 22, 2009
• Flexible Dates in Python (including BC)
  Thu, Jun 18, 2009
• Computing Copyright (or Public Domain) Status of Cultural Works
  Thu, Mar 12, 2009
• Recent Work on Open Economics
  Fri, Jan 23, 2009
• Imagemagick convert notes
  Mon, Jan 12, 2009

2008

• Data Storage and Transfer Costs: Some Back of the Envelope Estimates
  Tue, Sep 2, 2008
• Talking at OpenTech on Saturday
  Thu, Jul 3, 2008
• markdown2latex (mkdn2latex) Script for Converting Markdown to Latex: v1.2 Released
  Mon, Jun 23, 2008
• Subversion Hacks
  Fri, Jun 20, 2008
• Some Notes on Converting From Subversion to Mercurial (hg)
  Sat, May 17, 2008
• External Monitors with Ubuntu and Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics
  Wed, Feb 13, 2008

2007

• svk Sync Bug "Bad URL passed to RA layer: Malformed URL for repository"
  Sat, Oct 13, 2007
• Counting Words in a Latex File
  Fri, Aug 24, 2007
• Running OpenOffice from the Command Line on Mac OSX
  Sun, Aug 12, 2007
• A Review of Plotting Libraries for Python
  Tue, Jun 5, 2007
• Dump Python Interactive Session to a File
  Fri, Apr 6, 2007
• Merging Subversion Repositories Together
  Fri, Mar 23, 2007
• Versioned Domain Models
  Thu, Mar 22, 2007
• mkdn2latex v1.1: An (improved) Python Script to Convert Markdown to LaTex
  Tue, Mar 13, 2007
• Problems with selfupdate when updating a very old macports
  Tue, Feb 13, 2007
• Thinking about Annotation
  Wed, Jan 17, 2007
• Adding Mathematics to Markdown
  Mon, Jan 8, 2007

2006

• Web-Based Annotation
  Tue, Dec 19, 2006
• mkdn2latex: A Python Script to Convert Markdown to LaTex
  Thu, Nov 30, 2006
• A Pythonic API to Subversion Repositories
  Wed, Nov 15, 2006
• csv2ascii: display csv as ascii tables
  Fri, Oct 13, 2006
• Accessing open access repositories using the python oaipmh package
  Fri, Oct 6, 2006
• WSGI Middleware
  Thu, Sep 28, 2006
• Unicode to ascii mappings for standard characters from wordprocessed documents
  Mon, Sep 25, 2006
• Find and Replace Across Multiple Files
  Fri, Sep 22, 2006
• 'Hello World' with WSGI
  Thu, Aug 31, 2006
• Stephenson's: In the beginning was the command line
  Fri, Jul 14, 2006
• wdiff: compare two files word by word
  Fri, Jul 14, 2006
• Vim and the Clipboard
  Sat, Jul 8, 2006
• Renaming Files in Bulk
  Mon, Jun 26, 2006
• Python Script to Batch Convert Flac to Ogg
  Wed, Apr 12, 2006
• Fixing Wordpress When You Change the Site URL
  Wed, Mar 8, 2006

2005

• BSA Study on Software Piracy
  Wed, Dec 14, 2005
• Migrating Drupal to Wordpress
  Mon, Oct 10, 2005
• Contact Management Software
  Tue, Apr 12, 2005
• Second Life as Metaverse
  Wed, Mar 23, 2005
• Limitations of the Human Mind: Insights from Lucasfilm's Habitat
  Sat, Mar 19, 2005
• Narrative Construction, Software and the Pearl Necklace Metaphor
  Tue, Feb 8, 2005

2004

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) - Software
  Tue, Dec 28, 2004
• History of Hacking
  Sun, Dec 26, 2004
• Taxonomy Software
  Sun, Dec 26, 2004

2003

• Coding Standards
  Sun, Oct 19, 2003