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With all the announcements around OpenID recently, I’ve gone and got myself one. This really is an interesting proposition because it separates out the more difficult problem of trust from identity. The public sector is also looking at federated identity. What could we learn from OpenID and it’s meteoric rise? 

One of the projects I am working on is a Standards Information Base (SIB) to support our enterprise architecture work. As this is a relatively small implementation project we’ve taken the opportunity to introduce Ruby on Rails. The following recipe documents how we have set up our development environment for rails on Windows XP Professional […]

I’ve just finished reading a post about “google juice” - the effect of having a high ranking in google search results. This is something I worked hard on when getting the ISS4PS website up and running.  In his post, Fred makes the following comment:
But Google Juice is not a perfect system by a long shot. […]

I currently have a few things in my to_read folder:

Everyone’s an Expert by Seth Godin
Killer Flagship Content by Chris Garrett
Chapter 9 of the book Clear Blogging by Bob Walsh

Great reading really does help the train journey to and from the office pass a lot quicker.

Lorelle shows love to the WordPress community:
I have a confession. I love WordPress Plugin authors. I worship the ground you float over. Without you, our WordPress blogs would be boring, ineffectual, and, well, just not the same.

Before reminding us that it is the simple things that make customers happy:
Your WordPress Plugins are invaluable, so make […]

I thought that WordPress was not sending trackbacks and pings. It turns out that Windows Live Writer was the culprit - well, OK it was me not filling in the right boxes in Live Writer. I assumed that WordPress would do all its great automatic trackback magic when I posted with Live Writer. This isn’t […]

Agile and lean are two themes the public sector will be looking at over the next year. So it’s great to see that a blog has just started that is looking at both!

I keep coming back to the ideas in this presentation. Having spent a lot of time in small start ups, the concept of keeping teams small resonates with me. I now work in the public sector where “small” is something we don’t do. OK, the issues we deal with are large and worth tackling but […]

I’ve been running the demo of MyLifeOrganized for a few weeks now and am using it to manage all my projects and actions. Here are some observations:

The windows mobile part is the key for me. I’m using my iPaq to do all the day-to-day stuff and the main app for ‘planning’. A BlackBerry version would be […]

 This month is turning out to be quite busy. Last week I was at a conference looking at transformational government. Later this month I’m off to the Future of Web Apps as part of a project I am currently working on (more on that in later post). I’m quite excited about this one - the speaker […]