a work on process
notes from another web developer
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...
