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Dafydd Vaughan | The personal blog of a web developer and tech lead in London - Part 3
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Blog - Page 3. After the last few manic weeks, this week was a chance to slow down a bit and take stock of everything that has been going on. On Monday I and a bunch of technical colleagues met with the DVLA team leading on their ICT contract let (a piece of work to split up their existing […]. This has been a week filled with workshops. On Monday I spent the day at the Richard Ley Development Centre (RLDC) in Swansea. The RLDC is the DVLA’s conference and training centre. It’s pe...The last couple of we...
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Dafydd Vaughan | The personal blog of a web developer and tech lead in London - Part 2
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Blog - Page 2. Quite clearly I didn’t manage to keep up with my intention to publish my week notes regularly. As things became a little crazy before Christmas, these always ended up at the bottom of my prioritised list. I’m going to give them another go, but they’ll probably be shorter, but hopefully still interesting. So, recently… Vehicle […]. 3 November 2013. 1 Comment. 17 October 2013. 1 Comment. The last couple of weeks have been dominated by one topic – infrastructure. As mentioned in my ...I’...
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Week notes #49 | Dafydd Vaughan
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Dafydd Vaughan on 7 April 2014. 8211; lots of my focus over the past few weeks has been assisting this team to get to their public beta. The service was opened up to everyone at DVLA a couple of days before launch and we released to the public. Last week. The team will now take a bit of a breather before looking at what needs to be done to make the service “live”. Vehicle management and personalised registrations. Other things I’ve been involved in:. I spent some time working with the team at DfT. Helped...
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Spending time with users | Dafydd Vaughan
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Spending time with users. Dafydd Vaughan on 14 June 2015. Last week I spent a day in Manchester with my team’s user researcher. She’s visiting people all over the country to help us better understand how people interact with government services. 8211; everyone should be involved. I’ve not spent anywhere near enough time doing this. I’m sure Leisa. 8211; the head of user research at GDS – would agree. I’m going to commit do doing this more. On 14 June 2015 at 10:20. And icons from wpzoom.
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Week notes | Dafydd Vaughan
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View driving record – lots of my focus over the past few weeks has been assisting this team to get to their public beta. It’s been a bit of a testing-fest with load, penetration and data quality testing going on. As the data from the driving records goes though a pretty complicated process to get […]. Quite clearly I didn’t manage to keep up with my intention to publish my week notes regularly. As things became a little crazy before Christmas, these always ended up at the bottom of my prioritis...The las...
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Dafydd Vaughan | The personal blog of a web developer and tech lead in London - Part 4
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Blog - Page 4. Last week we finally launched GOV.UK. On Tuesday afternoon I got to issue the pull request to remove all the beta messages from the site, then a team worked through the early hours of Wednesday morning to redirect as many Directgov and Business Link URLs to GOV.UK as possible*. On Wednesday, the site received over […]. Brushing off the cobwebs. Cookies on the gov.uk beta. Today I’ve written about how we will be using cookies on the gov.uk beta website. An extract is below, an...Just under ...
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A busy start to 2015 | Dafydd Vaughan
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A busy start to 2015. Dafydd Vaughan on 2 February 2015. January is usually a fairly quiet month. It normally takes people a while to get back into things following the Christmas break. This year however, everything seemed to have hit the ground running. Lots of projects have moved forward quickly and it looks like the first half of this year is going to be rather productive. This month the first phase of DVLA’s Vehicle Management service has moved to a public beta. Also this month, the second phase R...
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Dafydd Vaughan | The personal blog of a web developer and tech lead in London - Part 8
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Blog - Page 8. Cinema-style content ratings for websites. Recently, the UK Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Andy Burnham did an interview with The Telegraph. During the interview he confirmed that the government was looking into a cinema-style rating system for websites. As a web developer, hosting provider and internet user, I do not understand how such […]. Staying ahead of the game. This weekend I went along to a Developer Day at Microsoft’s campus in Read...
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Govilon.com » Late Summer Walk 2011
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Late Summer Walk 2011. Late Summer Walk 2011. August 28, 2011. The Walk starts and finishes at the Forge Car Park (on the Tyla Road at the top of Station Road, Govilon). Distance 3.5 km Times: 10:30 to 12:30. Guest Leader: Rob Vaughan. Originally published on at 17:39 in Community News. Click here to cancel reply. More archives ». Supported by Dafydd Vaughan.
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