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Build your Docs career: Come and join us in June 2018
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Develop API best practice with the cross-government community
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Discovering the future for government networks
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How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify
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...
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Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing
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. Sticky or fixed elements...
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Understanding legacy technology in government
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We’ve combined the Technology Leaders and Digital Leaders Networks
The Technology Leaders Network (TLN) and the Digital Leaders Network (DLN) recently merged. We’ve combined the TLN and the DLN to address the trend that digital and technology job roles are...
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Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10
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. As users upgrade the...
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Building a tool to improve our GitHub security
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. At GDS, we...
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Build your Docs career event: our recap
I recently co-organised the Build your Docs career conference together with the Write the Docs (WTD) community. This was the fourth collaboration between the organisations and focused on the technical...
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Build your Docs career: Come and join us in June 2018
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Develop API best practice with the cross-government community
We’ve been working with the cross-government community to set standards in APIs. Our next objective in this piece of work is to get the community together to discuss some of the best practice that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Discovering the future for government networks
It’s part of our role as the Government Digital Service to set the standards needed for digital government to be successful. As we continue to move away from the PSN, we need to think about the new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing
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. Sticky or fixed elements...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Understanding legacy technology in government
We recently finished a discovery to help us learn more about some of the biggest legacy problems across government. Although we currently offer some advice on how to move away from legacy systems,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We’ve combined the Technology Leaders and Digital Leaders Networks
The Technology Leaders Network (TLN) and the Digital Leaders Network (DLN) recently merged. We’ve combined the TLN and the DLN to address the trend that digital and technology job roles are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10
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. As users upgrade the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Building a tool to improve our GitHub security
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. At GDS, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Build your Docs career event: our recap
I recently co-organised the Build your Docs career conference together with the Write the Docs (WTD) community. This was the fourth collaboration between the organisations and focused on the technical...
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