Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

I have uploaded the Land Registry house price data to doogal.co.uk . There’s been a lot of talk in the press recently about there being a ...

A while back I spent a bit of time making doogal.co.uk more mobile friendly. I’d put it off for a long time primarily because I thought it ...

It looks like development of Metastorm BPM has, if not stopped completely, at least slowed down . So I thought I’d write something about my ...

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry sales data, covering sales for January 2014, to my website . The good or bad news, depending on your ...

I’ve just uploaded the latest postcode data from the ONS to my website . My checks suggests everything is OK with the data but let me know i...

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...