More »

Misleading infographics

2 months ago by james on a work on process.
During the opening keynote of QCon London yesterday Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons explored “The Data Panorama” and naturally that involved...

Kestrel in Gauges

2 months ago by james on a work on process.
I really appreciated John Nunemaker’s recent post about the way they’re using Kestrel (a distributed message queue) in Gauges. There’s...

Inside Government

2 months ago by james on a work on process.
The second of the three GOV.UK beta releases was unveiled last week. “INSIDE GOVERNMENT” is the promised “corporate publishing platform...

Backing up flickr

3 months ago by james on a work on process.
It’s taken me a little while to get to Aaron Straup Cope’s write up of his Personal Digital Archiving conference talk, but I’m rather...

The beta of GOV.UK

3 months ago by james on a work on process.
It’s been about ten days and it feels a lot longer, but recently we unveiled a rather important beta: GOV.UK. That beta is a “live operational...

Simple behind-the-scenes API authentication with OAuth2

5 months ago by james on a work on process.
Like many others I’ve been spending a lot of time with OAuth2 lately. The single-sign-on system we’ve built at GDS acts as a very simple oauth...

Outside-In APIs

5 months ago by james on a work on process.
We spend a lot of time at work talking about APIs so Anant Jhingran’s “Six API predictions for 2012” was a particularly relevant read...

Where Is He Now?

8 months ago by james on a work on process.
Nearly five months ago we revealed Alpha.gov.uk. And then this blog became even quieter. It’s been a few months of big transitions, two of which had...

Alpha.gov.uk is GO!

~1 year ago by james on a work on process.
Late last night I commented out the HTTP authentication settings, and Alpha.gov.uk was live. I’ve not slept much since then, but so far everything...

Reading before writing (about alpha.gov.uk)

~1 year ago by james on a work on process.
I’ve been working on an entry for the Alpha.gov.uk blog for publication later this week. The idea is to give a quick overview of how we’ve approached...