Do you have pseudocode for field validation of the following items in the UK? I am from the USA, so I only know the ones in the USA right now. Address Line 1 Phone Number Mobile Number (in case they have a special rule for this, which they might not) Post Code ...
Please comment if you are a UK-based freelance PHP developer. Are there just less contracts around because its December or will PHP developers feel the crunch? ...
Hi Guys, I am trying to use regular expressions to find a UK postcode within a string. I have got the regular expression working inside RegexBuddy, see below: \b[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][A-Z0-9]? [0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}\b I have a bunch of addresses and want to grab the postcode from them, example below: 123 Some Road Name Town, City County...
I've been offered the chance to do some short contracts - less than two months as a self employed contractor in the UK. I like the idea of working on a variety of projects but what rates should I charge? What else should I know? Some details (thanks to commenters) I'm located in West London, My experience is mostly in digital libra...
What I need is: - 3-5 phone numbers in the UK, possibly on different networks - charge phones by Credit card - text messages received by these numbers get emailed to me (one by one) - Needs to work with premium text messages, i.e. the one where you pay as a recipient. ...
Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I have found several that convert UK Postcodes into Geolocation. But I need the addresses lis...
In the mac terminal application there is a setting (preferences -> keyboard) that lets you set "use option as meta key". This is useful as a lot of unix boxes use bash as default shell and that has emacs keybindings M-f and M-b that let you skip words. Problem is that on a Mac with a UK keyboard the # symbol is tricky to get to - norma...
U.K. that require addresses often ask the user to provide a postcode. The site then offers the user a choice between the addresses that match that postcode. Where do these sites get the data to do this? Are there webservices that match postcodes to addresses? Do sites buy a database of addresses that they then query locally? ...
Hello, I was wondering where I would be able to get a good cPanel reseller hosted in the UK at a sensible price. I am currently hosted by ResellerZoom in the US but I find the speeds very poor and so am hoping to move. Does anyone know anyone good at a low price which takes Paypal, or is a reasonably well known host? I don't need much ...
I'm looking for the coordinates for UK area's, locality, state/province (part of the problem finding them may be that they don't have a definite name). I know that postcode coordinates can be obtained under license, but is this the same for area's (e.g. borough's of London). Surely Royal Mail can't charge for these too? I want to creat...
I'm working on a project where we collect payments from users using credit/debit/PayPal payments. The service is taking payments from users on behalf of a 3rd party organisation. Once we take the payment, minus fees, we want to transfer the amount to the organisations bank account. For now, what we can do is pay the organisation using ...
I am building a web application which will store general details (address, email, landline....) about my company's clients. What security measures should I put in place to comply with the Data Protection Act principles? Is there anywhere a specific list of measure to put in place? Sorry I forgot to mention In UK. ...
I need to re-format a list of UK postcodes and have started with the following to strip whitespace and capitalize: postcode.upcase.gsub(/\s/,'') I now need to change the postcode so the new postcode will be in a format that will match the following regexp: ^([A-PR-UWYZ0-9][A-HK-Y0-9][AEHMNPRTVXY0-9]?[ABEHMNPRVWXY0-9]? {1,2}[0-9][ABD-...
Is there a service that provides latitude and longitude for UK phone numbers? For example: Query: 0141 574 xxx, Returns: (55.8659829, -4.2602205) [Glasgow City Centre] Allow me to stress that I am not looking for a reverse-directory-enquires. I am more interested in 'local area' for things like weather by phone or "Where's my nearest P...
Hello Guys, We need an address finder (premise level) based on postcode. We have a budget of 40k for this. But I have been assigned to find some cheaper alternatives for Royal mail PAF database. Is Google any good to find premise level address when you send full postcode. Any recommendation over Royal Mail PAF file. Any web services out...
I want to be able to convert the intersection of two road in the UK, and get the coordinates of that location. Google only has data for road intersections in the US. Is there any way to get data on road intersections in the UK? ...
For converting between Latitude/Longitude and UK's Ordnance Survey National Grid eastings and northings, this seems to be the most popular explanation and reference implementation in JavaScript: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-gridref.html The web is littered with other implementations in different languages. Making the co...
By all accounts the UK postcode address file (PAF) - a list of postcode with the matching addresses - is free now. I've had a good old nosey on the OS OpenData site (http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/) but can't seem to find it. I can find geocoding stuff for each postcode BUT I want the addresses for each postcode. Or...
I am a mid way through an EJB3 java project, also using jquery and sql server. I consider myslef reasonably proficient at all the technologies(and design patterns). I have the opportunity to chose, a possibly new technology, for my next project. I was considering using Vaadin, however a quick look on the UK jobs web sites shows a distin...
I'm a 21 year old student in my last year of University, and I am looking for information about developer conferences. I live in Derby (United Kingdom) and there's not (As far as I know) many conferences local to where I live. I do have a car at my disposal so travelling shouldn't be a problem. I was hoping somebody could recommend the...