open source

Opening up

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Steph

Twenty years ago, before regular people had the web, I was a 13 year old discovering a hybrid database/scripting application called HyperCard. One of my early projects was a random number generator for the newly-launched National Lottery, which incredibly, made … Continue reading →

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Whitehall in WordPress

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Steph

The clue was in the 150pt slide Simon put up at the start of the day, but actually I think he was just catalysing a conclusion most of the participants in Whitehall’s second WordUp event came to independently: we’re on the … Continue reading →

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How to open source your stuff

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Steph

One of the most rewarding things about open sourcing your stuff – for example, some code we developed for an internal project – is seeing what clever people do with it in ways you wouldn’t expect. At my talk at … Continue reading →

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ConsultationXML goes open source

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Steph

As Harry’s explained over on The Dextrous Web, we’ve just open sourced the code behind ConsultationXML, the tool we’ve been working on which turns consultation PDF files into XML. It’s a 0.1 release so still full of bugs, but at … Continue reading →

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