LinkedLegislation Blog

I've wrapped the California Laws website in an Android application for even faster access from your mobile phone.[UPDATE: I have shut down the live CA Laws demo website; legix.info provides the internal hyperlinks that I had built into my site, and is kept up-to-date. The Android app is also not... [Read More]

You can now browse California legislation from your mobile device at calaw.tabulaw.com. This is an extension of the work, described in these posts, to parse and display California's laws for more user-friendly navigation. I implemented this as a simple web application, using mobile-targeted style sheets, not (yet) a native application.... [Read More]

This week, the U.S. government released a major update to the online version of the Tax Code. For some reason this didn't make headlines. Here, and in future posts, I will discuss why the text of the Tax Code needs to be "open sourced", and how we're approaching this challenge... [Read More]

As the Wiener scandal reminds us, Congress doesn't quite have the hang of this internet thing. So I take the liberty here to provide 5 suggestions of better things Congressmen could be doing with their access to the web and our tax dollars: DO DON'T 1. Write in Plain English... [Read More]

I've made some improvements to calaw.tabulaw.com [archived], which has all of California's legal codes with internal links for easy navigation of the laws. It now also has a fast search engine, powered by Sphinx.Know anyone who works with California state law? Pass this on to them. Anyone in the legislature?... [Read More]