The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, and I recently travelled to the West Coast of the US which coincided with the launch of GOV.UK. It was slightly surreal...
...making waves across the pond and again at 5:30pm during a BBC News interview with Tom Loosemore and Martha Lane Fox. Links and comments and links were noted, debated and...
We're already talked about why we chose Amazon Web Services for hosting the beta of GOV.UK, and how we approached some of the decisions that came with it. Cloud hosting gives us the flexibility to rapidly iterate our infrastructure as …
...receive email alerts for new contracts via the Contracts Finder service. Another initiative, the Mystery Shopper programme, has been launched as an extension of the Cabinet Office Supplier Feedback Service...
At GDS, you will repeatedly hear that meeting user needs is the defining principle behind GOV.UK. There are a number of data sources that help us design and iterate the products we are building, including data from internal systems.
All of the editorial content on GOV.UK is available in full via an API. It's the same API we use to communicate between the editorial tools and the apps that produce the pages you see. As I said several months …
...of the little language decisions we’ve made around the edges of the site. Our first decision was to distinguish between the language of the core editorial content of the site...
Later this month we will unveil another bit of our GOV.UK beta - the element that explains the work and workings of government. This is intended to replace the many separate sites run by government organisations, simplifying things for people …
...services, e.g. DVLA offices and Sure Start Centres 6. Calendars: As we blogged earlier we have updated the bank holidays section with Matthew Somerville’s code. Please keep the feedback coming!...
...downloaded the code for that particular page from our open source code repository, and then corrected the code and uploaded the changes to GitHub. He submitted a pull request (ie...
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