Digital by Default

Category: work

  • OpenCFML for government (and beyond)

    I’m very lucky to be spending this week in Washington DC attending a couple of related conferences about CFML and in particular the MuraCMS that I’ll be using for a major project in the coming months. Now I can hear all you Ruby, Django…even .Net and PHP…guys giggling from here. Yes Coldfusion does still exist!…

  • eBook experimentation

    I’ve been fascinated with eBooks and digital publishing for quite a while now – there are certainly blogposts on here going back a couple of years on the topic. I’ve been particularly interested in whether there was an opportunity to start publishing the kind of corporate publications the public sector have long been so fond…

  • ‘Harder, opaquer, slower’

    OK I’m less than convinced that ‘opaquer’ is really a word but you get the point 🙂 When you visit the latest iteration of GOVUK one of the first things you see is the strapline ‘Simpler, clearer, faster’. I like it. Alot. It nicely sums up what GDS are trying to achieve and just generally…

  • Pimping Postling

    Just a short post to say after considerable research and alot of false starts I have finally settled on a replacement for CoTweet. I originally wrote about this back in February and since then have experimented with a few tools but none quite fitted our needs. Either they were too expensive, too complex or both!…

  • One small step for the web, one giant leap for the organisation

    Today is a good day. I’ve written before about the need to celebrate the little wins and I am doing that again. This time though it doesn’t feel that little. It feels like a major achievement. Which is weird to say the least. Today we launched a blog for our organisation. This isn’t my first…