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England 2-1 Slovenia (Under 21). England 2-2 Czech Republic. Crapello Out (5 mins ago)

Another Autumnal night in the teeming rain at Wembley. Another stodgy, error strewn and clueless performance from an England team woefully low on confidence and coach...

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Choices (10 mins ago)

Bruce Stewart has a good article up on his site about the upcoming federal election. In it, Bruce concludes that the option facing voters choosing between Stephen Harp...

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The family and the private sphere (19 mins ago)

Reading this post over at Socialist Unity regarding the media frenzy towards Gary Glitter. It also made me think how the media says little when it is sexual abuse wit...

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

API: Connecting to B4L - no comments

I'm working on an API for Bloggers4Labour. Basically, that's a mechanism for other computers to talk to our site (specifically, our database and software) and "do things", just like you click on a URL and view our pages.

Initially, my aim is to provide the simplest possible way for other (probably) Labour sites - for example, the member's portal, MpURL - to submit their own blogging members to Bloggers4Labour. So, as you set yourself up a blog at MpURL, you can be automatically submitted to our list.

Perhaps later, we'll provide MpURL, and other partner sites, the ability to query non-personal information about our bloggers and feeds, thus helping to "glue" the sites together.

I've based what I'm doing upon what TheyWorkForYou has done on their own API page, and intend to follow the same technical decisions they have made, offering much the same output formats.

The blog submission is largely working already (on a test database), so let me know if you fancy testing it yourself.

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£2,058.70 spent since 2007, which could be met by a donation of £4.07 per blogger.




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