TattyFromMelbourne on Recently I was asked which tools I use to check accessibility. Of course, like so many web developers, I rely on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) which are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The most current version of the guidelines are WCAG 2.1, with WCAG 2.2 due to be released in November this year. (WCAG 2.2 is…
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LenSoftware Moderator on Commonwealth Government Commonwealth Government APIs Design System Victorian Government Make your project open source – Digital Standards Single Digital Presence (SDP) Make content accessible – Digital Standards Victorian Government – API Design Standard – DRAFT Victorian Government – Human-centred design playbook Magazines/ online publications – Public Policy The Conversation The Mandarin Government News Magazines/ online publications – IT IT News…
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TattyFromMelbourne on Getting ready for two exciting conferences, FOSDEM which is going to be live-streamed from Brussels this coming weekend (see the schedule here) and later on next week is Pause Fest which is happening right here in Melbourne.
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TattyFromMelbourne on Haven’t been blogging very much… which I am now realising was not such a great idea. It’s hard to recall what I’ve been doing and all the insights I’ve had. So, in attempting to remedy this situation, I thought I would re-commence blogging by just jotting down some of the online resources I have been using lately to do front-end…
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LenSoftware Moderator on Inspired by Software Freedom Day, that just took place last Saturday, LenSoftware thought we might share the love. By far the most useful talk in Melbourne was the Email Self-Defence (Email Encryption) talk given by Stew Johnson, with key signing afterwards. Here is the amazing infographic from FSF (Free Software Foundation):- Andrew Pam of LUV (Linux Users of Victoria) also…
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LenSoftware Moderator on SAP has been aggressively selling its HANA platform and while the back-end is proprietary, it has been starting to push the open front-end out into the world. Witness the “code jams” scheduled for the Northen-hemisphere summer, the sponsorship of the newly-created Amsterdam OSCON, the Facebook and Twitter feeds, etc. The corporate behemoth is indeed, like its SAPUI5 mascot of the…
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LenSoftware Moderator on The good news is that SAP is paying some attention to the open source community. They released an HTML5 and JavaScript framework, called SAPUI5, the year before last. Now that framework is not under an open-source license even though it incorporates quite a number of open-source JavaScript libraries (See https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/sdk/#credits.html.) According to one official SAP site: “SAPUI5” is the version…
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LenSoftware Moderator on We are so excited, version 0.0.1 of dbElectrum is finally out! Please check out the demo at dbelectrum.org or at dbe.lensoftware.com and let us know what you think. There is still some documentation to come, like the crucial Development Guide but it should follow in a matter of weeks. If you would like some support and/ or to become a…
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LenSoftware Moderator on The new year is almost upon us and so we have decided it’s time to go for a new look. With WordPress outpacing other CMS systems in popularity (see for instance a trend plotted by Google Trends as to how well WordPress is doing against Drupal and Joomla,) together with the fact that WordPress won Open Source web app of…
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LenSoftware Moderator on Just a quick update to the last post, a client asked us to look at their shopp system (an e-commerce plugin for Word Press.) The web server needed a couple of extensions, namely GD2 and cURL. After re-running the PHP 5.2.14 installer and changing the installation to include these additional extensions the web server could not be re-started as php_curl.dll…
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