I had the pleasure of attending Untangle the Web at Google Campus on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately the tube strike resulted in a somewhat more intimate gathering than had been expected. Although, on the plus side, there was plenty of pizza and beer to go around!

Teacamp is one of the best places to have a frank discussion about the state of digital projects. Yesterday Janet from the Identity Assurance team came to discuss how the programme is going, and gave a broad overview of the project as well as a nuanced and detailed description of some of the ways that […]

This is the first of a weekly series of posts to share what your friendly dxwers have been reading and sharing this week.

I’m working on a Json api for fetching reviews from security.dxw.com/, using the rails-api gem. When a plugin hasn’t been reviewed, the api (naturally) returns a 404, but what should the body contain?

Hi everyone, First a quick introduction. I’m Ian and I’ve just joined dxw as the new Account Manager. I have a varied background mostly in creative geekery and training. Highlights include, seven years at Apple in both sales and training roles as well as two years technical consultancy and support for an arts charity.  Recently […]

A major vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) has been found in OpenSSL, which is the software that many people use to make secure, encrypted connections to websites. A security problem has been found that allows an attacker to read a small portion of the memory of the computer using OpenSSL. This could enable an attacker to see things […]