Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

I’ve imported the latest Land Registry to doogal.co.uk . As ever, little can be inferred from a single month of data but draw your own concl...

I’ve been trying to ignore mobile devices for a long time. Although doogal.co.uk has always been available on mobile phones, so long as you...

When I was trying to improve the performance of my old server, I came across this page . Unfortunately it didn’t help with the old server an...

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry property sales data to my website , covering November 2013. As always, not a lot can be inferred from...

KML is a standard XML format used to describe geographic data. It’s been owned by Google ever since they bought the company who originally d...

After much fighting with my old server trying to import the 18 million property sales from 1995 to today, I decided it was time to upgrade t...

Trying to get a PHP app working on Windows Server 2012, I got the following error message “HTTP Error 500.21 - Internal Server Error Han...

I started to import all the Land Registry data back to 1995 into doogal.co.uk , which was taking a looooong time. So I tried a little optimi...

Not content with having one of the highest council taxes in the UK…* Local authority 2013-14 Average Band D (excluding...

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry data to my website covering sales in October 2013. In more interesting news, with a few days to sp...

I’ve uploaded the latest ONS postcode data to my website . My data integrity check suggest it’s all fine but the size of the CSV download ha...

Today's BBC business pages contain these two headlines Black Friday flurry for UK retailers UK household debt hits record high Black ...

Cycling is in the news due to several deaths in London. As someone who has cycled quite a lot in and around London (although very little in ...

In my last post I showed how to get hold of the associated icon for a file . Now, say you want to get hold of the icon for the user’s defaul...

Sometimes it’s useful to display an icon for a file in an application and probably the best icon to display is whatever the operating system...

So we have a Labour party who are talking about a cost of living crisis . Good on them. Until you hear their main policy, which seems to be ...

Eyes and nose removed, most internal organs gone. Fortunately it wasn’t a real cat, just a toy.

doogal.co.uk has some exciting new postcode data (depending on your definition of exciting…). I’m in the process* of importing population d...

I’ve added a UK parliamentary constituency page to doogal.co.uk for England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland continues to not provide ...

Postcode data can be diced and sliced in lots of different ways. So I’ve sliced the UK postcodes so you can grab data for each National Park...