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  • I’m Dave and I’m going to be blogging about WordPress

    Hello gang! I’m Dave and I’m going to be blogging here at DXW about WordPress and how it can be used in government. I’m going to be covering tips and tricks to make the most of all of WordPress’ great features, as well as pointing out some of the areas where people go a bit…

  • Weekly Roundup 16/05/14

    Unfortunately the evil monkeys thwarted our attempts to get last week’s blog post out. They have now been returned to the cellar and normal service will be resumed. Here is what your friendly dxwers have been reading and sharing this week.

  • Untangle the Web April

    I had the pleasure of attending Untangle the Web at Google Campus on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately the tube strike resulted in a somewhat more intimate gathering than had been expected. Although, on the plus side, there was plenty of pizza and beer to go around!

  • “Don’t you know who I am?”

    Teacamp is one of the best places to have a frank discussion about the state of digital projects. Yesterday Janet from the Identity Assurance team came to discuss how the programme is going, and gave a broad overview of the project as well as a nuanced and detailed description of some of the ways that…

  • Weekly Roundup 02/05/14

    This is the first of a weekly series of posts to share what your friendly dxwers have been reading and sharing this week.

  • Rendering nothing on 404 in a Ruby on Rails api

    I’m working on a Json api for fetching reviews from security.dxw.com/, using the rails-api gem. When a plugin hasn’t been reviewed, the api (naturally) returns a 404, but what should the body contain?