Retiring the Business Support API
We’ve come to the decision that as of April 2017, the Business Support API will be deprecated. This post explains why we're doing this and the dates you need to know.
Updating the GOV.UK Continuous Integration environment
Our team makes sure the GOV.UK infrastructure is up to date and maintained, while also providing infrastructure for new requirements. At the moment it’s our mission to “Upgrade the Things”, which involves a series of major updates to our …
Providing access to datasets through APIs
In this blog post I’ll discuss our thoughts on providing access to datasets through APIs. My thoughts are based on experiences with the Registers team, who have been conducting user research into how people use data, and agree with the …
Reporting back on cross-government StackTech2
In November 2016, roughly 2 years after the original StackTech unconference, we held StackTech2 in London, open to all cross-government technologists.
Cutting the maintenance strings on Puppet::Syntax
Today we’re handing over the maintenance of our Puppet::Syntax tool to an open source community group.
An allow list approach for cloud APIs
07 August 2020 update: We’ve updated this post to remove references to ‘whitelisting’ and ‘whitelists’. GDS has updated its style guide to ban references to the racist terms ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’. We now use ‘allow list’ and ‘block list’ instead. …
Improving forms with new radios and checkboxes
Over the last year on GOV.UK, we’ve been looking for ways to make our forms easier to use by improving the checkboxes and radio buttons that people need to click on.
How we represent data when developing APIs
At GDS, “make things open,” is something you hear on a daily basis. In my new role as the GDS Open Standards Lead, I’m helping to make sure we do this, ensuring we choose the best open standards, and promote …
Completing our work to secure digital services
In June we blogged about work we were doing to update our security guidelines for government digital services. Since then we've been busy working with teams across government to update services ready for the changes. Thank you to the teams …
A mini conference for technical writers on agile documentation
We have a growing community of technical writers in government focused on writing documentation and guidance for technologists. Next week we’ll be holding our second mini conference this year on how to write documentation in an agile environment. The event …
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