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Researching interop in the NHS https://oli.zilla.org.uk

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Talk: Digital Interoperability in the NHS

We need interop that is loosely coupled across a diverse ecosystem.

May 21·16 min read·3031 words

Who owns NHS Data

Can we co-create and co-own our health records?

Dec 17·3 min read·468 words

The Canonical Data Model and the FDP

What does it mean to own an interface to a proprietary cloud platform?

Dec 2·3 min read·557 words

Why use Open Standards for Healthcare Records

so you wanna procure some software?

Oct 20·4 min read·793 words

Adopting X-Road in the UK

Reducing the time-tax of government services through digital interoperability

Apr 30·14 min read·2728 words

A blueprint for modern digital government

The gov.uk app, the APIs, and the operating environment

Feb 26·8 min read·1444 words

All the priority reforms from "a blueprint for modern digital government"

For those that like their data dense

Feb 25·6 min read·1165 words

Rainbow

Sketching with animated SVGs

Sep 18·2 min read·238 words

Animated CSS logo for nodebots

An animated, pure CSS drawing of the Nodebots logo featuring a blinking eye animation.

Jun 14·2 min read·229 words

Asciify - Plain text awesomizer for Node, Grunt and the CLI.

A plain text awesomizer for Node.js, Grunt, and the CLI to generate ASCII art text.

Mar 15·1 min read·37 words

If only you knew... plain text

to avoid formatting nightmares, vendor lock-in by writing plain text and markdown

Jan 20·5 min read·846 words

Conventions Vs Craftsmanship and Getting Things Done

Yehuda Katz's RailsConf talk about convention over configuration, JSON APIs, do-ocracy, and bike-shedding.

May 28·5 min read·891 words

Scala's polite compiler fictions & the surprising difficulties of asking an AnyVal it's MaxValue

Investigating Scala compiler magic, companion objects, and why duck-typing Numeric types for MaxValue fails in Scala 2.8.1.

Feb 19·7 min read·1259 words

Git on Lenny, a love story

A needlessly funny walkthrough on configuring lenny-backports to get Git 1.7 on Debian Lenny.

Dec 7·4 min read·737 words

Web by Proxy; Secure surfing on someone else's SOCKS

A tutorial on encrypting your browser traffic over unsecured public Wi-Fi using an SSH SOCKS proxy tunnel.

Nov 25·4 min read·798 words

Writing Scala after Java

A comparison of Scala and Java syntax, highlighting pattern matching, companion objects, and potential pitfalls.

Nov 8·1 min read·194 words

Selenium and Castro testing the Canvas

Notes on Jason Huggins' talk on testing HTML5 canvas-based apps with Selenium and recording tests with Castro.

Nov 5·6 min read·1063 words

Upgrade with sbaz, the Scala Bazaar System

A guide to upgrading your Scala SDK installation and managing packages with the Scala Bazaar System (sbaz).

Oct 8·4 min read·644 words