Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

I’ve uploaded the Land Registry data for May 2014 to doogal.co.uk . For all the talk of a house price bubble, the Land Registry data (arguab...

The Land Registry house price data for April 2014 is now up on my site

I’ve just uploaded the latest postcode data from the ONS to my site . There are over 2.5 million postcodes in there, alive and dead. My data...

I have a number of web pages that generate some data in text areas using Javascript. The only way users could download this data was to copy...

Last year I saw the various Ride London rides on the telly and rolling through Kingston and fancied doing it myself. Riding round London an...

I’ve uploaded the Land Registry house price data for March 2014 to my website . Now that probably all the sales data for 2013 has come in, i...

A debate has been raging on my website over the use of StringBuilder.AppendFormat in my exception logger code. OK, raging is something of ...

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...