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  • Being a non-techie working in tech

    You can sometimes spend your whole working life in a ‘comfort zone’ where you feel familiar enough with everything that’s going on around you. You might even feel like you are an expert in a particular field and have an added confidence in your step as you merrily skip to work in the morning. I…

  • The Parliamentary Digital Service has a new blog

    Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been working with the newly formed Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) to create a new blogging platform. PDS has formed to improve digital services and will use the platform to update service users on the work they are doing, with other departments and groups within Parliament. We were asked…

  • We’re rolling out 2 Factor Authentication for GOV.UK Blogs

    At dxw we understand the importance of security. The internet is a scary place and for our public sector clients security is always high on their priorities. Often the websites we create for our clients contain sensitive data. Not getting hacked and keeping logins secure is a must to preserve this data and the reputation of…

  • Introducing Adam

    Hi, I’m Adam and I’m the even newer developer on the team at dxw! I first found out about dxw in the middle of 2013 when they offered to sponsor an event I organised for the web community. Since then I’ve kept in touch with some of the team (old and new) and have become…

  • Introducing Leanne

    Who am I? Hi, I’m Leanne. I joined the dxw team a few weeks ago as the office administrator. I have come from a varied background of working for Lloyds TSB (when that was still a thing), Sage Software up in Newcastle (where the football is sad) and 6 years working for a fitness company as…

  • The Digital Services Framework: not quite buried, but certainly seems dead

    The Digital Marketplace team have just published their June update, and it’s a biggie. It covers lots of ground. Digital Services 1 and 2 look set to continue as they are, but there are several major announcements about progress on Digital Services 3. I say Digital Services 3, but it sounds a lot like that’s a framework…