Posted in OpenAustralia on Nov 23rd, 2011
I read over at Craig Thomler’s eGov AU blog that Brisbane City Council has launched their own open data catalogue site. Great news, right? Not entirely. Unfortunately it appears to be yet another Australian site reinventing the open-data-catalogue-wheel. So far we have: data.gov.au: custom WordPress site data.brisbane.qld.gov.au: custom WordPress site data.nsw.gov.au: custom PHP (Drupal?) site [...]
Posted in Geekery, Hacking, OpenAustralia on Sep 18th, 2011
It’s been too long since I’ve written a post here but I blame it on writing posts for everyone else! I wrote a little post about creating a PlanningAlerts scraper for the Northern Territory for my mum. We ran an OpenAustralia hackfest last weekend and I wrote a blog post that was cross posted on [...]
Posted in Hacking, OpenAustralia on May 27th, 2011
I’ve been using the online (sorry, cloud) open data scraping tool, ScraperWiki for some time now. We’ve written a bunch of scrapers that are being used by PlanningAlerts and I’ve also created a few for other bits of data I am interested in or that I’ve been commissioned by clients to write. For the second [...]
Posted in Hacking, OpenAustralia on Jan 17th, 2011
In less than a week I’m off to DrupalDownunder for work as the company I work for has started to look at using more Drupal in the work they do for clients. Given that I’ve not delved too deep into Drupal and certainly never developed on it, I thought I had better find out a [...]
Posted in OpenAustralia on Jun 25th, 2010
The good people of SUSE Studio have just released SUSE Gallery, which allows you to share appliances built in SUSE Studio (done with the usual SUSE Studio style I might add – “Enabling Infinite Improbability Drive” is displayed when you enable the new features :) nice!). OpenAustralia DevLive, the ready-to-run OpenAustralia.org and PlanningAlerts development environment, [...]
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