How to decide what to work on next
This post is about choosing user stories to work on from a product backlog, and the lessons I learned from taking on big pieces of work.
Join the team: Developers and Technical Architects
We're looking to significantly increase the size of our teams as we plan for the next phases of GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're …
Responsive grid system which works in IE6
We have a grid we use on GOV.UK which is based on percentage width columns (multiples of either 25% or 33% of the container width) with a 30px gutter between the grid columns. The columns on narrower devices shrink appropriately …
Links from around GDS for 3rd October 2014
Occasionally we like to call attention to links and other short-form substance from around GDS (we last published one of these in January 2014).
CDN acceptance testing for GOV.UK
GOV.UK has used a Content Delivery Network (CDN) since its transition from beta to live in October 2012. When the contract with our first CDN provider came to an end in September 2013, we took advantage of what we'd learned …
Developer tools tips and tricks
As developers of web pages, we spend a lot of time using our browsers to inspect their HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The developer tools that come with modern browsers are therefore one of our most-used tools, Google Chrome’s in particular. …
Join the team: Developers and Senior Developers
We're looking for up to eight more developers to work with us across GOV.UK, Identity Assurance, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're looking for people with skills …
Releasing applications to GOV.UK
We have written about how regular releases are good and that we practice what we preach on GOV.UK but we have never communicated what we actually do. We have just over 50 applications that we release to GOV.UK, some more …
Taking another look at GOV.UK's disaster recovery
As GOV.UK gets bigger, we often need to revisit the ways that we originally solved some problems. One thing that's changed recently is how we prepare for disaster recovery. Disaster Recovery The reality of working in technology is that software …
Improving accessibility on GOV.UK search
Today a minor change to our main site search went live. I hope it is an improvement in the experience of searching the site using a screen reader. The problem Here is the search page on GOV.UK. It has a …
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