By: Bill
In reply to Philip Hands. If you want to check on the O/S and the Web server used on a site check out Netcraft who do a addon for Firefox. It usually works but I found one odd anomaly when checking a...
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I appeciate this post and the colophon are really about the main alpha.gov.uk site, but why no mention of WordPress?
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In reply to T.J.. You're right, we should have mentioned wordpress in the colophon and I've amended that. We've not talked about wordpress because this blog is the only place it's used and that's quite...
View ArticleBy: Mark Johnson
Be interested in your methodology for your route to live for the things that Puppet manages, considering it myself and looking for real world examples of puppets use in mission critical environments...
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In reply to Mark Johnson. We based a lot of our puppet setup on some scripts created by an agency called "Go Free Range". You can see theirs at https://github.com/freerange/freerange-puppet - rather...
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In reply to James Stewart. Thanks for the quick reply, (sorry mine is so much later). Thanks for the link to the info too. Will the link to the blog stay as prominant on the alpha site when it goes...
View ArticleBy: imwilliam
The UK has laws, policies and so on regarding the usability/accessibility of government websites. Best practice suggests this should be addressed early in the design process; e.g., I can see problems...
View ArticleBy: Paul Annett
In reply to imwilliam. Hi William. We blogged about accessibility here: http://blog.alpha.gov.uk/blog/accessibility I also touched on the subject of the feedback we've received about our approach to...
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[...] will be developing a flexible, adaptable, scalable, modern technology platform. I barely need mention that we’ll be continuing to use open source software, not because [...]
View ArticleBy: Dezmembrari
I should add that we had a thorough penetration test run on the site. The report was very positive but also made a number of recommendations, most of which we have subsequently implemented.
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