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Government’s Cloud First Policy is 12!

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Government’s Cloud First Policy is 12!

Two landmark publications: the State of Digital Government Review, and the blueprint for modern digital government are clear - cloud technology is helping to reshape how government works. With the blueprint setting out the long-term vision, and with the Government …

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Building a tool to improve our GitHub security

Posted by: David King, Posted on: 13 July 2018 - Categories: Tools
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GitHub plays a major role in the software supply chain at GDS. All our source code is stored in GitHub - mainly in Alphagov - and we work hard to make sure our repositories are secure.

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Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10

Posted by: Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development, GDS, Posted on: 26 June 2018 - Categories: Tools

Service team developers no longer need to test on Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 (old versions of IE) when following our ‘designing for different browsers and devices’ guidance.

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We’ve combined the Technology Leaders and Digital Leaders Networks

Posted by: John Strudwick, Posted on: 19 June 2018 - Categories: Chat, Transformation
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The Technology Leaders Network (TLN) and the Digital Leaders Network (DLN) recently merged.

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Understanding legacy technology in government

Posted by: Lucy Carey and Claire Ashworth, Technical Writer, CDDO, Posted on: 24 May 2018 - Categories: Transformation

We recently finished a discovery to help us learn more about some of the biggest legacy problems across government.

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Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing

Posted by: Andy Sellick, GDS frontend developer, Posted on: 21 May 2018 - Categories: GOV.UK
"GOV.UK step by step guide on iPhone"

In GOV.UK's Modelling Services team we looked at the possibility of using sticky functionality as part of our work with step by step navigation elements. Here’s what we found.

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How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify

Posted by: Thomas Leese, Posted on: 16 May 2018 - Categories: Tools
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This post explains how our GOV.UK Email team used load testing and code profiling when migrating to GOV.UK Notify to make sure we could continue to send out 1 million emails per hour during peak times.  

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Discovering the future for government networks

Posted by: John Strudwick, Posted on: 14 May 2018 - Categories: Transformation
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It’s part of our role as the Government Digital Service to set the standards needed for digital government to be successful.

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Develop API best practice with the cross-government community

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 4 May 2018 - Categories: Chat, Transformation
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We’ve been working with the cross-government community to set standards in APIs.

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Build your Docs career: Come and join us in June 2018

Posted by: Jonathan Glassman, GDS Technical writer, Posted on: 3 May 2018 - Categories: Jobs
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There are many different tools and skills required for different content roles, and these requirements vary by job and over time. Writing technical documentation is a specialised role, and because of this us documenters often have to take responsibility for …

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Introducing the GDS Consulting Technical Architects

Posted by: Ola Bamgboye and Breandán Knowlton, Posted on: 1 May 2018 - Categories: Transformation
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The Consulting Technical Architect team is part of the Service Design and Assurance group at GDS. Read on to find out who we are, what we do and how we can help your organisation.

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