James Stewart is Director of Technical Architecture at GDS. He's been around since the alpha.gov.uk days, building out the technical underpinnings of GOV.UK and other new government platforms.
Open Source Content Management Systems like Drupal and WordPress have been gaining a lot of ground in recent years, with governments around the world adopting them. Drupal in particular has attracted a lot of fanfare as numerous high profile US …
Public APIs are a vital feature of the modern web. Whether you're looking at the ecosystem of Twitter and Facebook apps, tools for managing auctions on ebay, or code for embedding Youtube videos in a blog post, clear ways of …
The team share an overview of the technology used to develop Alpha.gov.uk.
Alpha.gov.uk would work best if it knew where in the country its visitors are from. We'd love to get your feedback on our approach to this.
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
