June 13th, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
On Thursday, CF Labs launched their latest project – StayPrivate.org – into public beta. This site is designed to make it easier to sign up for the various marketing opt-out services that exist in the UK. There are lots of different opt-out services that exist, all of which have separate sign-up forms and require you [...]
March 23rd, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Just over a year ago I joined CF Labs as one of the developers working on innovation and making data publically available. When I started, Consumer Focus was a pretty new organisation still getting to grips with its role and getting everything into place so it could undertake its duties properly. In the middle of [...]
December 15th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
It has been exactly nine months since I started my job at Consumer Focus Labs. In this time, we’ve published our Recalled Products website, some data on the Digital Switchover in Wales, been contributing to a blog following our attempts to get data out of Tesco and are producing our new StayPrivate.org website. Sometimes I [...]
July 26th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I’m not quite sure where the past few weeks have gone, but quite clearly they’ve passed me by quickly. These are a few things I’ve wanted to blog about but haven’t had the time to write a decent entry. Normal service will resume shortly. Karoo disconnects file sharers Hull’s only internet provider – Karoo – [...]
April 7th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
What’s been going on recently? – well quite a bit really. I’m now settled into my new job at Consumer Focus Labs. We’ve spent a few weeks getting our systems set up (not as easy a task as we’d have liked), our development environment in place and courting ideas from anyone and everyone. We’re now [...]
March 23rd, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I’ve been a part of the team at VSI for the best part of nine years, originally as a summer job, but more recently as a full time developer. During this time I’ve seen significant changes in the way the internet works, from new technologies and new standards in design, to new ways of communicating [...]
December 21st, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Last week I was busy trying to put together a new design website design for an important client at work. As always, we were on a very tight deadline and it had to be completed the end of the next day. I’d left work early so I could concentrate on the design without being distracted [...]
November 13th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Selene M. Bowlby, a web designer and developer who has recently taken the jump into full time freelance work has just posted a blog entry with 60+ essential feeds for freelance web designers. She made the post in response to an open thread on Freelance Folder asking “How Do You Stay Sharp?“. As a web [...]
October 17th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I’ve been very quiet for the last 6/7 weeks. Everything has been a bit crazy at work – lots to do, lots already done, but not much to show for all the effort! Over the last few months we’ve been busy working on several new websites, a fair number of which have now been handed [...]
June 29th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
After 4 years of lectures, coursework, projects, dissertations and exams, its finally time for me to enter the real world. My time at Swansea University has come to an end. Just over a week ago I was given the result of all this hard work – a Master of Engineering in Computing with Upper Second [...]
