Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry house price data to my site . Prices are still slowly ticking up but it seems the mini-boom in sales ...

I have uploaded the latest ONS postcode data to my website . This means all the latest postcodes in England, Wales and Scotland are now avai...

I’ve just uploaded the latest Land Registry data for April 2015 to my website . Nothing of note to report, prices continue to rise at a slow...

I occasionally run a little app I wrote 4 years ago to grab the most popular pages on my website via Google Analytics  and update the data...

A strange thing happened last week, visits to my site were affected by real world events. That’s the first time that has happened. The cause...

I wrote recently about the trouble I’ve had figuring out what to do about counties in the postcode data on my site . Thanks to a very helpfu...

I made a few improvements to the website over the Bank Holiday weekend. Ever had a burning desire to know the distance from a postcode to th...

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry house price data for March 2015 to my site . Prices continue to chug along at 4-5%, as they have been...

I include some county information with my UK postcode download data , but I get quite a few questions regarding it. The most common question...

In July 2012 I started to use Endomondo to track my bike rides. Since then some things have changed in my cycling, I’ve moved from a mounta...

Google’s PageSpeed keeps telling me I should load scripts asynchronously to improve the performance of my website. Now in an ideal world I’...

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry data to my site . Prices continue on their seemingly never ending upward march.

A post from three years ago detailing how to implement selectSingleNode for XML documents in a cross-browser friendly manner is still ge...

I was excited when Google announced Google Earth Pro was going to become free . A lot of geographical data comes in Shape files, but these a...

I have uploaded the latest Land Registry house price data to my site . Prices continue their gradual ascent. The BBC reports the blindingl...

The ONS have released the latest version of their postcode dataset and I have now uploaded it to my website . A few sanity checks suggest it...

I think getting to, or maintaining, a healthy weight is fairly straightforward, in principle at least. Match your calorie intake with your c...

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry house price data, for December 2014, to my website . Prices seem to be gradually drifting upwards, as...

I’ve uploaded the Land Registry sales data for November 2014 to my site .

I’ve updated the route elevation page on doogal.co.uk so you can now grade climbs. It uses the same rating as Strava , which is based on th...