Thursday 16 February 2012

Cookies...and not the munching kind

What am I talking about? Well, due to an amendment to the law (the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and the new Directive 2009/136/EC) in May last year, the way information is stored by technology is being changed, and primarily how cookies should and can be used and stored - hence the nick-name for this amendment: "The Cookie Law".

The UK government has given businesses a year to comply with the changes, which means that as from May 2012, any organisation that does business in the UK (and EU) is affected.

To find out more: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/cookie_rules_prepare.aspx

Just so you don't panic too much, this doesn't appear to affect intranets! It only applies to public-facing websites.

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Learning jQuery

If you ever wanted to learn jQuery but couldn't find the time or the discipline to do so, you can get some daily force-fed lessons by visiting http://learnjquery.tutsplus.com/ and signing up for the "30 days to Learn jQuery" course from Tuts+.

If you're starting out learning this stuff it should provide some structure (hopefully) to your initial learning.  Have fun.