Articles tagged ‘data’
Use Unicode
Why the only bug you should see in text is 🐛 • 2022-10-11
Mixing kinds of text
Where embedding one kind of text in another goes bad • 2022-09-20
Modelling text as data and code
Getting your formats mixed up • 2022-09-13
Modelling text as symbols
Obscure problems when displaying symbols • 2022-09-06
Modelling text as writing
Software design problems with the simplest of four kinds of text • 2022-08-30
Modelling multitudes
Measuring, counting and naming different kinds of quantities • 2022-06-07
Use a money data type
Why your software should handle money amounts separately from other numbers • 2022-04-12
Use a currency-specific number of decimals
Why a money amount isn’t just a number • 2022-03-08
Populate country lists carefully
How to source a list of countries to use in software • 2022-02-01
Localise names with the CLDR
Using the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository’s standard translations • 2022-01-25
Internationalise data
Better software through commoditised domain modelling • 2022-01-18
CSV isn’t broken - Excel is broken
Reasons to blame Excel for comma-separated values (CSV) issues • 2022-01-04
Publish data using the CSVW standard
Use W3C’s ‘CSV on the Web’ (CSVW) standard to make data accessible • 2021-12-28
Create RFC 4180-compliant CSV files
How to solve the worst comma-separated values (CSV) problems • 2021-12-23
Why CSV survives
The enduring nature of comma-separated values (CSV) • 2021-12-21
CSV character encoding
Comma-separated values (CSV) with the wrong characters • 2021-12-14
CSV delimiter confusion
Comma-separated values (CSV) files don’t always use commas • 2021-12-07
Allow varied national telephone number formats
Why telephone numbers don’t add up • 2021-02-23
Respect people’s full names
Don’t call someone’s name ‘invalid’ • 2021-02-16
Validate email addresses to level 4
First person to say ‘regex’ loses • 2020-12-01
Allow all printable characters
First person to say ‘special characters’ loses • 2020-11-17
Numbers that aren’t numbers
‘Numbers’ that you can’t represent numerically • 2020-09-29