Coding in the open
We talk a lot about Open Source at GDS. GOV.UK is built on open source software and, to a degree, built as open source software. It's a topic we care passionately about because it helps us maintain our focus on …
GDS team
Posts about who we are and how we work.
Meet the finance team
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Graham Higgins - former Senior Digital Media Producer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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A couple of weeks ago we introduced you to the Hosting and Infrastructure team. Now it's time to meet the Finance team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuEU-d4A5Tk A big thanks to Andy, Ezinne and...
No link left behind
From October the 17th GOV.UK will replace Directgov and Business Link as the best place to find government services and information, but what will that actually mean for people following links for these sites, or visiting bookmarked pages?
One size does not fit all
It's taken a very different kind of team to build GOV.UK than the one most people picture when they think of web developers. Even within the tech industry, some stereotypes don't fit with the kind of people we've needed.
What devices are we supporting at launch, and why?
In January James Weiner wrote a little about the browsers we support and during the summer we revisited that question to decide which operating systems, screen sizes and devices we would support at launch. As with all things on GOV.UK we’ll …
Agile projects: the people side
We talk a lot about agile here at GDS. We use agile methodologies to focus on our users. The faster we can build a functioning product, the sooner we can get it in front of real users and start iterating …
Sharing the GDS approach with Code for America
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Emer Coleman - former Deputy Director of Digital Engagement, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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...on a panel chaired by Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, with two great women; Nicole Tecco Reece from Case Commons and Jessica Lord, Code for America Fellow 2012....
Not so special after all
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK
I’m Neil Williams, one of the product managers for GOV.UK. I work on the Inside Government and detailed guidance areas of the site, where practically all government organisations will publish their corporate and in-depth content in future.
Building with APIs
I’m James Stewart and I’m one of the Technical Architects working at GDS. Over the past few months I’ve been mainly focussed on the publishing tools and platform that underpin GOV.UK, and in particular on the APIs they use and …
This week at GDS
...upcoming projects and building tools to help process some data from the Cabinet Office Emer Coleman from our comms team spoke at the Code For America summit in San Francisco....
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