The Commercial launch of our Open Platform is a big step for us; for the Guardian's tech team in particular, it means a step change in the the technology that powers it. (If you haven't already watched Mat Wall's video explaining how the platform works, I strongly recommend it for a quick recap.)

The tech team are at the OpenTech 2008, where we're speaking about the open aspects of recent rebuild of the Guardian

Some of our Technology team are attending the XTech 2008 conference, presenting the technology and ideas behind the redesign and rebuild of the Guardian

Following the rollout of the Guardian's new look - some areas of the site temporarily disappeared from our search engine. So, our apologies - a fix is being rolled out at the moment, and normal service is returning to search.