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Web application security tools 23 Apr 2013 | 11:57 am
I’ve become increasingly interested in web application security issues over the last year or so. Working in Government will do that to you. And I’ve come to the conclusion that a) there are lots of go...
Government Service Design Manual 23 Mar 2013 | 09:04 pm
I’ve not been writing many blog posts lately, but I have been doing quite a bit of writing elsewhere. One of the things I’ve had a hand in at work is the new Government Service Design Manual. This is ...
Perils of portability 23 Mar 2013 | 08:36 pm
I had fun speaking at QCon in London earlier this month with a talk on the Cloud track entitled the Perils of Portability. This had some Governmenty stuff in but was mainly part rant, part hope for t...
March madness 17 Feb 2013 | 10:17 pm
With only a week or so to go before the end of February, it’s looking like March might be a little busy. I’m speaking at QCon, in London on Wednesday 6th on Clouds in Government – Perils of Portabili...
Going fast in government 17 Feb 2013 | 10:08 pm
About a month ago I had the good fortune of speaking at the London Web Performance meetup. This was one of the first talks I’ve done about our work at The Government Digital Service since the luanch o...
Django and Rails presentation from QCon 13 Jan 2013 | 09:31 pm
I had great fun back in November at the QCon conference in San Francisco. As well as currating one of the tracks and catching up with people in the area I managed to give the following talk. In hinds...
my personal package repository 30 Dec 2012 | 09:52 pm
I’m a big fan of system packages for lots of reasons and have often ended up rolling my own debian package repository at work, or working with others that have done so. Recently I finally got round to...
On the forge 3 Dec 2012 | 01:18 pm
I’ve been spending a bit of time recently pushing a few Puppet modules to the Forge. This is Puppetlabs attempt to make a central repository of reusable puppet modules. I started doing it as a bit of ...
Shipping 22 Oct 2012 | 01:50 am
Last week we shipped GOV.UK. Over the last year we’ve built a team to build a website. Now we’re busy building a culture too. I’ve got so much that needs writing up about everything we’ve been up to. ...
Tale Of A Grok Pattern 19 Aug 2012 | 04:00 am
I’m all of a sudden adding lots more code to GitHub. Here’s the latest project, grok patterns for logstash. At the moment this repo only contains one new pattern but I’m hoping to add more, and maybe ...
