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Simple behind-the-scenes API authentication with OAuth2

~1 month ago by james on a work on process.
Like many others I’ve been spending a lot of time with OAuth2 lately. The single-sign-on system we’ve built at GDS acts as a very simple oauth...

Outside-In APIs

~1 month ago by james on a work on process.
We spend a lot of time at work talking about APIs so Anant Jhingran’s “Six API predictions for 2012” was a particularly relevant read...

Where Is He Now?

4 months ago by james on a work on process.
Nearly five months ago we revealed Alpha.gov.uk. And then this blog became even quieter. It’s been a few months of big transitions, two of which had...

Alpha.gov.uk is GO!

9 months ago by james on a work on process.
Late last night I commented out the HTTP authentication settings, and Alpha.gov.uk was live. I’ve not slept much since then, but so far everything...

Reading before writing (about alpha.gov.uk)

9 months ago by james on a work on process.
I’ve been working on an entry for the Alpha.gov.uk blog for publication later this week. The idea is to give a quick overview of how we’ve approached...

And so we’re revealed… AlphaGov

10 months ago by james on a work on process.
Last time I got round to writing weeknotes I mentioned an exciting new project. I wasn’t meant to say much about it, which is part of the reason that...

SxSW Interactive: A federated future?

11 months ago by james on a work on process.
It’s a week now since I got off the plane home from my second SxSW Interactive. I’ve primarily spent the intervening time catching up with work...

Fair Trade Letter Forms

11 months ago by james on a work on process.
Ben wrote a piece about a typeface that a lot of people in the UK will have seen around, and are hopefully seeing a lot of at the moment. It’s the...

Empowered, engaged adults

11 months ago by james on a work on process.
Matt Thompson’s “A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections” has cropped up in my twitter feed several...

Week 182

11 months ago by james on a work on process.
So I’ve clearly fallen off the weeknote wagon. A big, new, exciting project came up a few weeks back and almost everything has slipped as we’...