Ministry of Justice Open Source Adoption Paper
March 13th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 2 Comments »
Barry Polley at the Ministry of Justice has updated his paper covering the adoption of Open Source technologies in government.
Author Archive
NZ Web Standards compliance for research.elabs [updated 02/04/2008]
January 25th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 3 Comments »
We report on the process of achieving compliance with the New Zealand Government Web Standards for this site, including reports from the openWolf validator.
Mobile Web - a Nokia Resource
January 9th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »
It is becoming ever more realistic to design web sites with mobile users in mind. Nokia provide a free testing resource where you can remote control a real phone through a java console.
Practical iCalendar feeds
December 5th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | 10 Comments »
We demonstrate the potential for government web projects to deliver more usable and dynamic calendars using the iCalendar format.
XML 1.0 to 1.1 and back? [updated 03/04/2008]
November 24th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »
XML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation in early 2004. However XML 1.1 was controversial and there are very few XML 1.1 documents in the wild. The W3C is now considering back-porting the naming philosophy from XML 1.1 as an update to XML 1.0 and if passed then expects to deprecate XML 1.1.
Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) in .nz
November 19th, 2007 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »
We have contributed to a submission from the State Services Commission to the New Zealand Domain Name Commission, developing discussion points regarding the implementation of IDNs into the .nz domain name space - which would enable the registration of domain names using the five additional characters of the Māori alphabet, the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū.
