One of my techie blogging mates has emailed about John Hemming.
My friend says that he has looked at: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/switchmenu2.htm This is the original source of the menu script that can be seen here: http://john.hemming.name/menu.htm But the script on the John Hemming website has had the credits removed from the source code of the script which is contrary to the author’s licensing agreement and thus breaching copyright & intellectual property laws.
Here’s what Mr Hemming says about himself on the site:
“Business: He founded his first business (John Hemming & Co, now JHC plc) at the age of 23. This has grown to become a multi-million pound company and the leading provider of settlement systems to stockbrokers in the UK. John founded the first e-commerce operation (MarketNet) outside the USA in 1994. He also launched the world’s first, banking, insurance, legal and stock-broking services on the Internet in 1995. He founded Music Mercia International (MMI), a music company in 1997. In 2000, he founded The Purchasing Agency (also known as SafeSimple.Com) – which competes with Visa and MasterCard.
“His technical skills lie particularly in the areas of mathematics and programming. He is an accomplished cryptographer having devised a number of security and payment protocols. He was the first person outside the USA to implement the main SSL World Wide Web security protocol. He is one of the world’s leading internet technical experts and programs in eight different programming languages.”
If he can write code in 8 languages then why bother to rip off someone else by deleting their names from their script? If John would like to clear up this matter, I’d be delighted to put it right on this site. I don’t mind admitting that this stuff is incomprehensible to me, though can appreciate why people who do code, get irritated when they’re work is not acknowledged.
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This is an odd post Tom. Unless ….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/62.stm
Odd? Maybe. If he wasn’t a coding genius, I’d have left it. On balance and under the circumstances, worth a crack though pundit. Don’t you think?
If it means one less Lib Dem at Westminster, anything’s worth a crack.
*salutes*
When the time comes, we’re after him.
Fascinating riposte from UK Daily Pundit.
22% of UK voters voted for the Lib Dems and got 10% of the seats. Labour got 35% of the votes and 55% of the seats.
One less Lib Dem at Westminster? Errrr, yes, wouldn’t that be a big win for democracy.
One less Lib Dem at Westminster? Errrr, yes, wouldn’t that be a big win for democracy.
Well yes it would-but it would be an even bigger blow for honesty !
if you look at the javascript he is loading in: http://john.hemming.name/xpmenuv21.js
You will see the credits well and truly in place. No breaching copyright & intellectual property laws.
This code uses a javascript file rather than having embedded in the HTML.
[...] Blogging MP for West Bromwich – Tom Watson came up with this little gem today that I thought needed a bit more attention from the more technical angle. It relates to John Hemming, the LibDem MP for Yardley in Birmingham having used someone else’s code for his website. More specifically we’re looking at this. It’s John’s left hand sidebar menu and very nice it is too. For your delectation here’s the code for it and don’t worry there’s only a few bits of it that we need to examine, I won’t get too technical. [...]
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