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  • Disable your caps lock in Ubuntu

    I hate the caps lock: it seems to exist just to give me strings of shouty text and to confuse vim. Normally, I just pop it off my keyboard. But I just got a nice new Das Keyboard professional, and I didn’t want to mutilate it. I had a quick Google and found lots of…

  • Barclays Bikes gem

    Harry Marr (GoCardless) has made barclays_bikes: a cool little gem that scrapes the Barclays Cycle Hire website and gives you a command line interface to get the number of bikes and free spaces available at each docking station. For example, $ bbikes Gives the full list of London’s docking stations and $ bbikes Borough Gives you…

  • How Alphagov might change UK government for the better

    Alphagov. It’s here, it’s great, and if it’s taken forward, it will herald a great deal of positive change. Not just on the web, but in the way that government does things – and that will bring harder challenges. There’s lots in Alphagov to be pleased about. It’s not perfect, but as an attempt to…

  • Indian Hack Day

    The Hack Day that we participated in in India was great. A real experience. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect of it. In the end, there wasn’t a lot of time for much hacking, but we had fantastic conversations about India’s problems and projects. Chief among the Indian projects was some amazing mapping and…

  • Dextrous Web to join PM’s delegation to India

    I’m honoured and delighted to have been asked to join the PM’s delegation for his visit to India next week, in order to participate in a hack day with Indian developers in Bangalore. This should be a great event — we’ll actually only have 4 hours for the hacking, but hopefully we’ll be able to…

  • Testimonial: Anne Steer

    Dextrous web worked very efficiently under a very tight schedule. They made constructive suggestions to the website content and design which the Inquest team found helpful. They gave clear training for updating the website, and gave patient support to the Inquest team during the early stages of website updating. The few website glitches that appeared…