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This afternoon, one of the projects I’ve been working on in Swansea launched into public beta.

Quite clearly I didn’t manage to keep up with my intention to publish my week notes regularly.

The last few weeks have involved lots of spinning plates.

A year ago today two of the government’s biggest websites, Directgov and Business Link, were switched off and GOV.UK became the official site for information and services.

The last couple of weeks have been dominated by one topic – infrastructure.

I’ve neglected my week notes for a little while so here is a condensed update covering week 16 to 21.

It’s been another busy few weeks.

Some belated notes from last week.

At the beginning of the week I took part in a workshop to look at abolishing the Counterpart Driving Licence (the piece of paper that comes with the plastic card).

After a couple of very busy weeks things are starting to calm down and return to normal.

Yesterday (3rd July 2013) I have a talk about Digital by Default at Civil Service Live (an annual conference for civil servants) in Bristol.

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.

A little late this week.

Lots of progress this week.

This has been a week filled with workshops.

The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic.

Last week was a very short week with both a bank holiday and a day of annual leave.

A number of people are starting to put together week notes about what they have been up to over the past 5 days of work.

At some point in the last few weeks a lot of the things I worked on back in Consumer Focus disappeared from the internet.

As many of my friends and colleagues will confirm, I spent a large portion of the last 18 months commuting to work.

An overview of browsers and devices that are using the GOV.UK website on the GDS blog

2019 update: LocalDirectgov and the underlying datasets have now been replaced.

Last week we finally launched GOV.UK.

As the launch of GOV.UK draws nearer, it would be a mistake to assume that the beta is in it’s final state.

Just over a year ago, I blogged that I was taking a break from CF Labs and joining a project to create a new website for government.

An update on how government websites will be implementing the new cookie / privacy regulations

How the gov.uk beta website will be exposing services provided by local government

How the gov.uk beta website will be using cookies

Just under two and a half years ago I joined CF Labs – a new team based within Consumer Focus with a remit to build useful online tools and make data more useful and accessible.

2019 update: This e-book doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so I’ve removed the link The law was meant to protect the privacy of people using the Internet.

I admit it; I’m a bit of a train buff.

Later this week a new law comes into effect – the Privacy & Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

Whenever there has been an extended gap in my blogging I try and find something to get it going again.

Disclaimer: These are my own personal thoughts and not those of my employer.

On Friday, the Government announced that it is intending to close up to 75% of the 820 public sector websites it has identified.

On Thursday, CF Labs launched their latest project – Stay Private – into public beta.

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).

Unless it escaped your attention, Gordon Brown called the much anticipated UK General Election yesterday.

Just over a year ago I joined CF Labs as one of the developers working on innovation and making data publicly available.

As some of you may remember, a few months ago I waded in on the MP expenses controversy with a crowd-sourcing website for putting together a list of what they all claimed.

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”.

The past 36 hours haven’t been the best for those travelling with Eurostar.

It has been exactly nine months since I started my job at Consumer Focus Labs.

When you move into a new area, how do you find out about the community you are going to be living in.

The Royal Mail is well known in the UK for being an outdated organisation that is struggling to modernise, is regularly hit by crippling strikes and always seems to be losing money (despite the fact they made a profit recently?!).

Hello?

Last week, Neil Williams from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published his draft Government Twitter Strategy.

Yesterday, Richard Pope and I launched WhatTheyClaimed.com, a site aimed at digitising and collating all of the data from MPs expenses.

I’ve been a part of the team at VSI for the best part of nine years, originally as a summer job, but more recently as a full time developer.

Earlier today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Dublin, Robin Christopherson from UK charity AbilityNet gave a talk on website accessibility.