‘Developer Resources’ Category

New Zealand Government Feed Standard (Consultation)

July 22nd, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 13 Comments »

Calender IconThe State Services Commission has published an updated Government feed standard based on Atom. Currently in draft for consultation until 13th August 2008, this will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.

IP version 6 practical exploration diary - part one

May 30th, 2008 by Greg Rogan | 1 Comment »

IPv6 spread the love iconA few folk here at SSC recently decided to set up a IPv6 network. As most will know, global IPv4 addresses are running out and IPv6 introduces a far larger address space. What follows is a diary or log entry style format showing my progress and thought patterns.

Macrons on the Net

May 7th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 1 Comment »

For many users the way to insert a macron (ā,ē,ī,ō,ū) whilst writing is to find a page with one and copy/paste the needed character. Obviously there are easier ways, in this post I explore and experiment with a few methods to easily add macrons when entering content for the web.

Mobile Web - a Nokia Resource

January 9th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

Nokia E90It 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.

Generating Excel Spreadsheets with Māori Macrons in PHP

January 9th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 6 Comments »

PHP LogoAfter recently working on an application to generate Microsoft Excel documents using a PHP script, I ran into trouble with the PEAR package “Spreadsheet Excel Writer” which didn’t correctly display UTF-8 characters (Māori macrons in this case). Here is a fix!