• The National Pensions Debate

    I loved working on this project. There's something about having a impending ministerial deadline that gets everyone focused. It's one of the few times I get to concentrate on one project and can do it really well.

    John Hutton, Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions was holding a series of debates and discussions around the country. This was to be backed up by an on-line consultation survey asking the wider public's opinion.

    The questions had been prepared for us and it was down to my team to present them in the best way possible. I designed the survey interface and pair …

  • The Pensions Credit Estimator

    I had a lot of fun doing this project at work. It was a challenging project, with a tight deadline. There were a few surprises on the way, and a lot of late nights, but we got it done on time.

    The project started when I was given an ASP.NET desktop application and told to help the original programmer turn it into an ASP web application.

    The program told the user if they'd be entitled to Pension Credit and how much they were likely to receive. Pension Credit was a new benefit and they wanted the web application to launch at the same time the benefit did.

    It wasn't till I met the programmer …