Comments on: John Hemming – coding genius

By: Political Penguin » John Hemming, LibDem MP and thieving little Script Kiddie?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:52:15 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:34:32 +0000

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.

By: Gareth Williams

Gareth Williams — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:32:58 +0000

One less Lib Dem at Westminster? Errrr, yes, wouldnâ€™t that be a big win for democracy.

Well yes it would-but it would be an even bigger blow for honesty !

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:50:11 +0000

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.

By: PoliticalHackUK

PoliticalHackUK — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:36:25 +0000

*salutes*
When the time comes, we’re after him.

By: UK Daily Pundit

UK Daily Pundit — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:46:08 +0000

If it means one less Lib Dem at Westminster, anything’s worth a crack.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:42:01 +0000

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?

By: UK Daily Pundit

UK Daily Pundit — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:22:20 +0000

This is an odd post Tom. Unless ….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/62.stm