Following on from Political Hacking in the UK, via Simon’s blogmarks originally (then with further prompting from Jeff) – the developers behind TheyWorkForYou have published their source code on Sourceforge.

Makes interesting code to explore (still exploring). The front of the site itself is mainly PHP backed with MySQL, while they use Python for mining HTML, published by various government sources.

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Harry Fuecks

Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.