June 20, 2014

LocalGov Digital Makers Hack Day

As a fringe event to LocalGovCamp the LocalGov Digital Makers hack day was set to be a chance for people to “prototype solutions to problems local government currently faces.” A...

June 12, 2014

A sign of things to come?

At the beginning of this week, Individual Electoral Registration went live on GOV.UK and I was quite surprised how underplayed this was in many Local Government circles. After seeing the...

June 09, 2014

Interactive Mapping

Recently I was set the challenge of replacing an interactive mapping application that we ran for Northampton Borough Council. The product I was to replace had an annual support fee...

April 30, 2014

Solving Amazon EC2 Memory Issues

Often with the Amazon micro instances, and other instances with low memory allocations, your web server will ‘crash’, especially where MySQL’s involved. After a few page requests the MySQL engine...

April 29, 2014

LAMP stack on Amazon EC2: Part 1

Amazon Web Services offer a free tier of most of their services allowing you to host a full blown server in the cloud within their usage limits which can be...