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We recently hired a couple of Ruby-on-Rails developers and we repeatedly came across some key things missing from candidate CVs. The following are critical for developers with little commercial experience, but probably apply across the board. Side projects It’s now a fact of life that in a the creative industries you have to be able…

Websites, I like to think, are like cakes. They’re about cooking in proportions, they’re as many types as you have moods and I like eating cake (metaphor failing). Like a good sponge, digital products really only have a few key ingredients: Technology is actually the easiest bit of the puzzle (bearing in mind that this…

It’s been a busy week in government digital, with the Sprint Alpha presentation at the start of the week catching everybody up to how far the GDS has got in building their new raft of transactional services. These services are the order of the day; they’re the priority for GDS and for us too: we’ve…

EDIT: we’ve hired an awesome sysadmin, but we still have some other roles open. — dxw is recruiting at the moment, with several roles open, one of which is for a systems administrator. We think all these jobs are quite exciting, but the specs don’t do a terribly good job of explaining why. So, to…

We build most of our sites in WordPress, which has the advantage of allowing our clients to suggest plugins for specific functionality that they want on their site. Using plugins means we can grow the site quickly and without reinventing the wheel by coding for features that already exist. This is one of the great…

It ain’t easy being an arts graduate in digital. In the increasingly distant past, I trained as a social anthropologist. Our first week as undergraduates was punctuated with talks about our future career possibilities: lots of mention of the fact that all sorts of companies like Microsoft and Intel employed anthropologists in their head offices…