I changed the theme of our blog. Our spartan ‘design’ was hurting my eyes. I’m trying out the ‘Day Dream’ theme – let me know what you think.
Work continues on the Find Your MP project.
I’ve aggregated our issues from Google project hosting and our GitHub commits into one @fymp Twitter account.
We’re working on the Find Your MP service API, which – at the time of writing – includes REST responses for HTML, JSON, YAML and plain text. I’ve written a scratch Google [...]
Whenever the blog goes quiet, it’s a sign that we’re coding a lot.
The latest public release of the Hansard Prototype now refers to ‘people’ rather than Members: http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people – for example: Mr. Tony Benn.
This represents a substantial improvement in how we recognise and display those recorded as speaking in Hansard. Your comments are most [...]
We currently style tables in a slightly smaller font size than the main text on the Hansard prototype site. We’d really like to know if this is working.
Have you spotted a table that was incorrectly formatted? Do you find them readable and accessible? We’d be grateful if you could take the time to make us [...]
We’re no longer recognising geonames in the Hansard text, nor are we producing KML files from sitting days.
Although it was an interesting experiment, it wasn’t useful enough in real world usage to enough people. Removing these experimental features means reparsing the source files is quicker.
We’re still working out what to roll out in terms of [...]
As part of the Find Your MP project, a member of our team created a Generic Phusion Passenger Server VMWare virtual machine instance at Elastic Server. Don’t worry if none of that made sense.
What this means is: we use Elastic Server’s – er – service to create servers for local and cloud deployment. We use [...]
The Find Your MP service is being built using ElasticServer’s tools for creating virtual machines. CohesiveFT, the people who run ElasticServer, will be appearing – along with others – at CloudCamp London this Thursday 13th November.
I’ll be there – please say hello if you know me!
I recently wrote about how you can sort search results on the Hansard prototype site.
We’re still getting reports of the functions not working as people expect them to. If you have a problem sorting search results, please let us know – we’d be particularly interested in what browser and operating system you’re using.
