Waldo Jaquith
Waldo Jaquith
The tagging functionality that's long been baked into Virginia Decoded should be included. That doesn't mean providing end-user functionality to add or remove tags, but it should provide functionality to...
There's no reason why this should only work under Apache. Test this out on Nginx, figure out what needs to be changed, and fix it.
Right now, [we're sending out API activation emails via PHP's `mail()` function](https://github.com/statedecoded/statedecoded/blob/master/includes/class.API.inc.php#L408), which doesn't make sense in an era of SPF. For most people, this default behavior is an awkward...
Solr is tough to install, and it presents a real obstacle to deploying The State Decoded. In the intervening couple of years since I decided to use Solr, [Elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) has...
Calculate the MD5 hash of every definition (use a trigger, on insert or update?). List all of the places each term is defined, and every unique definition, with some sort...
Per #312, where [we had to figure out how to get the most-useful child structures](https://github.com/statedecoded/statedecoded/issues/312#issuecomment-25722795), we need to create a `sort=views` parameter within the `structure` method to display those structural...
Linking to laws within State Decoded on Facebook yields unreliable and sometimes useless preview text. Explicitly provide a title, type, description, URL, and site name.
The only attempt that we make to provide a definition for a plural term is to drop the "s" at the end. But this does nothing for words that end...
[Pro Bono Net](http://www.probono.net/) runs [LawHelp.org](http://www.lawhelp.org/), a library of hosted legal self-help documents. They skin the site for the various participating states (about 2/3 of state legal aid societies appear to...
For example, [§ 21-112.22](http://vacode.org/21-112.22/): > Whenever the words “circuit court” are used in this chapter, they shall also be construed to mean “circuit or corporation court” of a city; whenever...