To be able to “stress test” our server, we’re preparing to deploy an Open Source application called Siege which simulates multiple users making HTTP requests to the web application. It didn’t do quite what we wanted in the logging department, so we’ve hacked it about a bit and, in the spirit of Open Source, made [...]
Work continues on the Find Your MP project.
I’ve aggregated our issues from Google project hosting and our GitHub commits into one @fymp Twitter account.
We’re working on the Find Your MP service API, which – at the time of writing – includes REST responses for HTML, JSON, YAML and plain text. I’ve written a scratch Google [...]
As part of the Find Your MP project, a member of our team created a Generic Phusion Passenger Server VMWare virtual machine instance at Elastic Server. Don’t worry if none of that made sense.
What this means is: we use Elastic Server’s – er – service to create servers for local and cloud deployment. We use [...]
The Find Your MP service is being built using ElasticServer’s tools for creating virtual machines. CohesiveFT, the people who run ElasticServer, will be appearing – along with others – at CloudCamp London this Thursday 13th November.
I’ll be there – please say hello if you know me!
We’ve been working on the Hansard Prototype in public since January this year (2008). We’ve also run quite a few prototypes within Parliament, that haven’t reached the public web. Most of these prototypes are still running, but certainly not in a state we could release.
We’re going to be working on the Hansard Prototype until the [...]
Believe it or not, we have had people asking.
The Hansard Prototype project is, for the most part, open source. The source data – the XML files – are available under Parliamentary Copyright; the application code is available under an open licence. So, with some work on your part, you really can download the data and [...]
