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 …
Last week, the Government Digital Service held its first community ‘unconference’ on the topic of technical and data standards within government. The event was a great success both in terms of turnout and participation. Over 70 government technologists came together …
Last year GDS did a lot of discovery work. As well as ongoing work evaluating what was next for many of the things we were already doing, we built teams exploring possibilities for new platforms, and we worked with colleagues …
We recently updated our browsers and devices list with our current testing recommendations. As a general rule (although there are of course exceptions) we recommend testing pages and services against the top 95% of browsers used to access GOV.UK. This …
You may have noticed a couple of blog posts here recently about opening up code. The past few years have seen a lot of code released by teams across government both in the UK and internationally. That work is regularly …
Changing a database schema on a production application can be a complicated and risky process. Due to the nature of some of these schema changes and the underlying database engine, the physical change may take many minutes and can block …
Every now and then we like to flag posts from other GDS blogs (and maybe further afield) that we think you might be interested in: The GOV.UK team recently began publishing incident reports. Here's one on a spate of 504 …
As James and Ade announced in December, I'm doing some work to connect practitioners in government around the use of open standards as we develop APIs, and our overall approach to data and digital services. That will complement other emerging …
Over the course of the past few years many teams across government have begun publishing their code under open source licenses. That's a change that's been pushed by the Digital by Default Service Standard but it's just as much a …
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