The missing pieces: teaching the legal side of web development
We are creating architects who have never heard of building codes, drivers who have never heard of the Highway Code, and doctors who have never heard of the Hippocratic oath.
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Pulling the plug on legal compliance plugins
I've worked to amend the WordPress.org plugin guidelines so that plugins can no longer claim to make a site legally compliant in any regulatory requirement.
Case closed: how we exposed a fake web industry regulator
IWDRO, a private for-profit business under peculiar ownership, has illegally claimed to be the official regulator of the web design and development fields.
Seriously. Don’t join a fake web industry body to get a membership badge. Here’s why.
There was a bit of chatter yesterday regarding yet another dubious outfit, promoting itself as an “official” web design and development industry body, phoning around looking for membership signups. This organisation, and the people behind it, have history, and not in a good way. If these people showed up at a networking event, you would think less of the networking group. They’re that kind of outfit. On a comment thread about this particular organisation, one […]
Banned article: The perfect storm in digital law
So here it is, then, the topic that is apparently too dangerous to discuss: the future of the web profession itself.