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A few weeks ago Vita and I went to the first Women in Digital Government event. It was structured as an unconference by GDS and held at Conway Hall in Holborn, to bring together digital and technology teams across government to talk about the challenges women face in the industry and how we can make…

Back in April we started working with the Department for International Development (DFID) to help them transition one of their legacy websites on to GOV.UK as a finder. Finders are a filtered search, which departments and agencies use for custom filtering on specialist content. In DFID’s case, they are required to publish outputs from every…

One of the best things about working for dxw is that the perks of the job are actually really useful. No ping pong tables at dxw! One perk in particular that makes dxw such a great place to work is the conference perk. It does what it says on the tin (or the website, as…

We did another retreat last month and it was great for many reasons. Nineteen dxw’ers headed to Hurley, a small village just outside Maidenhead, via trains, planes and automobiles. We stayed at the beautiful Olde Bell Coaching Inn for a couple of nights in an attempt to get out of the office and discuss how to…

One of the many great things about working at dxw is that we all get a conference perk. This means that once a year we can choose to attend any conference that we’re interested in. For my perk, I chose to attend PyCon UK as python is something I started to spend my spare time…