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How a Digital Services 3 procurement could look
On Tuesday, I went to a supplier engagement session run by the Digital Marketplace team. It was great. The government CTO, Liam Maxwell, kicked the session off. Several of the team behind the Digital marketplace, G-Cloud and the Digital Services framework then explained what was going on, and described their thinking. I tweeted most of…
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Work retreats can be fun
Contrary to the post I read in the SME Insider this morning about work retreats, the dxw retreat over the weekend was all of the fun (and we didn’t jump out of any planes). I guess I’ve been lucky in my working career so far, when I’ve been asked away with work it’s been for…
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Our cause is just, and must prevail
It’s been a big few days. But let’s not lose perspective. Those who’ve recently left GDS will be sorely missed – by their colleagues, and by many others outside GDS as well. But five years is a long time to be in the machine. On reflection, it’s perhaps more of a surprise that so many…
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In defence of personas
Personas are a tool that are used a lot in agile development processes. They are authentic representations of different types of users. Through this representation they communicate information about how user behaviour may vary when the site or service is viewed from different circumstances. Personas have been interpreted as tools that encourage developers to ad…
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Trends in WordPress plugin security
Most of my time recently has involved working with WordPress plugin security. In a previous post I talked about some of the vulnerabilities which the dxw Security team have discovered and recently published. One of my other responsibilities is monitoring lots of feeds for plugin security vulnerabilities reported by other people and adding them to…
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Some WordPress Plugin vulnerabilities we’ve published recently
Most of my time recently has involved working with WordPress plugin security and I’d like to have a look at some of the security issues and themes which I’ve come across recently: One of my day-to-day responsibilities is managing the quality assurance and reporting of security vulnerability reports which we produce as a result of…