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  • UKGovcampX

    Last month was UKGovcampX, an event close to dxw’s heart. I’ve been a regular attendee and sometime campmaker since 2013, but this was my first one since leaving the Civil Service so I was looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends. This isn’t a comprehensive account of the day – just some thoughts. I took…

  • How we have protected GovPress sites from the WordPress REST API vulnerability

    A large number of WordPress sites will have been defaced as a result of a recently disclosed vulnerability in the REST API. Fortunately this did not affect sites hosted with dxw as proactive steps had already been taken to secure client sites. Two weeks ago, the WordPress security team told us and a number of…

  • Delivering a Delivery Manager

    Hello! At the beginning of the January I moved roles to help out as a Delivery Manager at dxw. Why make the change? I’ve been on the development team at dxw for over a year now. While I have been having enormous fun building software for our clients and their users, I wanted to try…

  • The Importance of the Network

    UKGovcamp has just celebrated it’s 10th birthday when over 200 people gathered at the National Audit Office. For those not familiar, it’s an unconference where a fabulous network of people with digital in common and a passion for making government work better, come together to identify and discuss the issues we need to battle. dxw…

  • In the Port of Amsterdam

    After having had the opportunity to go the the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference in October, I found out from one of the speakers that there was a European Women in Tech event taking place in Amsterdam at the end of November. I hadn’t at this point managed to work out which conference to go…

  • How we built GovPress admin

    Here at dxw we are dedicated to making things better. We spend most of our time designing, building and maintaining sites for our public sector clients. However, we also want to invest time in developing internal products that make our jobs easier and the work more interesting. A new service we recently released as a…