Open source software developer and information technology professional. Changing the Direction of Government IT. I love that the UK government review of IT outsourcing deals has been nicknamed the Ocean Liner report. In reference to the amount of time it takes to change the direction of a large vessel. This afternoon I was invited to talk about technology directions to an audience of technical architects in the BC government. It was a great group, and they seemed raring to go, by and large.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013. HTML5 Validation with CodeIgniter Form Helper. Setting up validation in HTML5 is a nifty task. So, what this will generate is a input search field with custom HTML5 validation that will only accept minimum of three characters.

I gave a talk at AAG. Last week, as part of a session about OpenStreetMap.

I build software that puts people on the map. I work at Cadasta Foundation. Most of my work is available on GitHub. Testing code to understand code. Writing tests for your software is crucial. Not just because it provides confidence in the functionality of your code but also because tests help you to understand your code and the problem you are solving. Deploying Docbox to Github pages. Find previous news in the archive.

LinkedIn profiles and statistical inference. ITunes album art on the desktop. AI and solving programming problems.

Random thoughts on information visualization, data journalism and interactive graphics by Gregor Aisch. Find more about my data visualization work at driven-by-data. D3 is nice, but it also makes some simple things look really complicated. One of them is making a simple HTML table. And now I feel that.