January 19th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the second part in a recap of everything that happened in the last half of 2010. Part 1 covered July, August & September. This part looks at October and November. October 2010 In October we completed the second phase of the new Consumer Focus website. Earlier in the year we made the move [...]
January 17th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Whenever there has been an extended gap in my blogging I try and find something to get it going again. It usually involves some kind of recap of the missing months to try and fill in the gap. This time is different only in the sheer amount of things that have happened. Over the last [...]
May 24th, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
We are nearly two weeks into the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat and there seems to be a lot of work going on behind the scenes to prepare for the start of the new legislative programme tomorrow (Tuesday). Of course, with a new government brings a new direction. Steph Gray, a former civil servant working in the [...]
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 [...]
January 31st, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Most people will be aware of the concept of a hack day – a number of designers and/or developers getting together for a day to build “cool stuff”. These sorts of days happen on a regular basis and quite a few interesting projects have come out of them. On Friday, Charlie and I attended a [...]
December 20th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Photo: lewishamdreamer (from Flickr) The past 36 hours haven’t been the best for those travelling with Eurostar. Five trains were stranded for hours in the Channel Tunnel without power, light, food, drink, heating or information. A further train became stuck near Ebbsfleet yesterday evening. The focus today is on the cause of the incident and [...]
October 15th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
These are a few notes from day 2 of the Future of Web Apps conference in London. This day turned out to be much more interesting than the last, which is evidenced by the fact that I don’t actually have many notes at all. I’ve tried to fill in the gaps where required. You can see the notes [...]
October 12th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Last week I attended the Future of Web Apps conference in London. For those who haven’t been before – this event is run by Carsonified (a web agency based in Bath) and covers the latest thinking around developing Internet applications. I went along to the FOWA event in Dublin earlier in the year, but this one was [...]
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 – [...]