2 posts tagged “cornwall county council”

Good lord, sometimes I think the microsofties who do the website for cornwall council really are a complete and total bunch of muppets.

The online job application has never worked in anything apart from MS Inept Exploder, because some complete tool decided that Javascript was Too Hard, and used vbscript for client side form validation - who the heck uses vbscript on web pages ??!!? muppet!

Now I noticed the cornwall.gov.uk appears in dynamoo's list of SQL Injected public sector websites that have been (until recently "fixed") spreading malware to anybody using them!

A quick google search shows that yes, at least part of the CCC website was hacked via SQL Injection, something that any developer worth hiring should know to prevent.

And just think - when our councils are all centralised, this bunch of clueless muppets will be doing the IT for all the councils. The same bunch of muppets who completely bought into Microsoft and insist on wasting money on poorly skilled staff and yet more MS licenses rather than hiring competent IT management.

I didn't believe the council leader, last night in the interview on local news,  when he claimed that the newsletter was revenue neutral, and even if it is, that's a great deal less than the savings promised.

It could work but not as they currently do it - rather than waste money sending it to every household
it can be targetted at fewer, better targetted audiences, such as doctors surgeries, libraries, job centres, etc.

Also it shouldn't just be CCC but get other cornish and devonshire councils to advertise in it, as well as major
devon and cornwall employers such as the police, sww, met office, etc to help pay for it and make it more worth reading for those who are looking at high end jobs.

While they're at it, they should also include contract and consultancy tendering.

As it stands the pish "newsletters" we get from South West Water and Cornwall County Council are a waste of time, money and resources - nothing more than an exersize in praising themselves and further alienating users of their services.