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 …
There's an important difference in how we use Git at GDS compared to lots of other organisations. We're very thorough when using version control because we don't want to waste the effort we've put into writing code. If our code …
A few months ago we announced we were going to host codebar on a regular basis. We thought we’d give you a brief update on how it’s going and share some photos from last week’s event. Codebar teaches programming to …
G-Cloud 8 has just opened for supplier applications on the Digital Marketplace. From a supplier’s point of view the application process is much the same as previous frameworks but behind the scenes a huge amount of technical change has taken …
As you may know we’ve recently been trying to improve how we write and display our developer documentation. We’ve done lots of user research with technical architects, developers and service managers so we have an idea of what good documentation …
We thought we’d try and explain the approach we’ve adopted to hiring and nurturing the right development skills. We realise it may not be clear to those not part of GDS why we solely advertise for full stack developers but …
At GDS we often use REST application programming interfaces (APIs) as a core part of application design. These REST based APIs have data and services that can be accessed by authenticated users. On GOV.UK Notify we’ve decided to authenticate API …
Last month we hosted our first mini-conference for technical writers, bringing the community together to discuss best practice and tooling. Attendees came from a mix of government departments and agencies, as well as from the private sector. We held the …
We recently started publishing Incident Reports when things go wrong on GOV.UK. These reports recognise all technologies inevitably run into problems and sometimes these problems may affect users. But while publishing these reports, we’re also keen to minimise them by spotting …
This week GDS hosted the second in a series of unconferences we’re organising to better connect the growing community of technologists in government. Building on the success of the recent technical standards camp, this time we were focussed on how we …
You may have seen our recent blog post about creating best practice for documentation. Now we’re hosting an event for technical writers completely focused on documenting application programming interfaces (APIs), just as we've recently held events around standards and code …
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