Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Mozilla MOOC

I have been studiously avoiding MOOCs since the hype kicked in but am going to give the Mozilla #teachtheweb course a go and see if I can carve out a bit of time to get my practical web skills up to something less humiliating! You can learn about the course on the HiveNYC site or…

May 6, 2013
52: Week One

I’m giving week notes another go as a way of trying to kickstart my blogging mojo and thought this time I’d go with a bit of a comic book theme to brighten things up (learn about DC 52 here..) This week I started my new job at the ONS. At the moment there is some…

May 4, 2013
Hawaii stynamic

The new Hawaii.gov website looks amazing but it is under the hood where it is really impressive – not a dissimilar approach to GDS. It is becoming clear that this kind of in-house development based on a suite of standardised open source tools rather than a big CMS is growing in popularity and certainly seems…

April 30, 2013
Hello Goodbye

On Thursday I said farewell to my friends and colleagues at the Research Council and Monday I start my new role in Newport with the ONS. I was sad to leave Swindon in the end – an element of this is probably ‘graduation goggles‘ but a bigger part is I was lucky enough to work…

April 27, 2013
He who is contented is rich – Laozi

Sorry about the quote its a bit of a red herring as this isn’t going to be a treatise on Taoism 🙂 After a little more than two and a half years (which is a pretty long time in Jukesie-years) I will be moving on from my current role in a couple of months and…

February 11, 2013