http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
What do you think?
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:21 PM, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
What do you think?
After a very quick scan of the first page it seems good to me. Lots of interesting tech: ruby, nginx, nodejs, ganglia, statsd, varnish, puppet...
What do you think?
Dennis
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:07:42 +0100 Dennis Dryden ddryden@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:21 PM, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
What do you think?
After a very quick scan of the first page it seems good to me. Lots of interesting tech: ruby, nginx, nodejs, ganglia, statsd, varnish, puppet...
What do you think?
Dennis
I agree, interesting range of technology.
But my query was partly ironic. I declare an interest in HMG websites. I built the original open.gov.uk service when I was in CCTA (now sadly no more). It was initially built on a Sun SPARC 5 (yes, a pizza box) running solaris 2.3 and CERN's original webserver. I later migrated to NCSA's webserver, then apache and eventually moved to linux on dell servers.
But in all that time, the back end was a pretty simple mix of CGI scripts. Of course we had no money, so that sort of limited what I could do. :-)
Mick
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On 25-Oct-2012 19:55:01 mick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:07:42 +0100 Dennis Dryden ddryden@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:21 PM, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
What do you think?
After a very quick scan of the first page it seems good to me. Lots of interesting tech: ruby, nginx, nodejs, ganglia, statsd, varnish, puppet...
What do you think?
Dennis
I agree, interesting range of technology.
But my query was partly ironic. I declare an interest in HMG websites. I built the original open.gov.uk service when I was in CCTA (now sadly no more). It was initially built on a Sun SPARC 5 (yes, a pizza box) running solaris 2.3 and CERN's original webserver. I later migrated to NCSA's webserver, then apache and eventually moved to linux on dell servers.
But in all that time, the back end was a pretty simple mix of CGI scripts. Of course we had no money, so that sort of limited what I could do. :-)
Mick
I read (Wikipedia) that CCTA was absorbed into the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). It's within our geek domain to appreciate The Register's take on the OGC set-up:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/22/ogc_logo/
Best wishes to sll, Ted.
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:26:36 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@wlandres.net allegedly wrote:
I read (Wikipedia) that CCTA was absorbed into the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). It's within our geek domain to appreciate The Register's take on the OGC set-up:
Ted
I remember that well. I had actually left OGC five years before that incident. But I had (and have) friends in its succesor organisation (GPS) In fact my wife still works there.
OGC was not a well managed (or well liked) organisation. Gershon has a lot to answer for. But at least he got his kighthood. Personally I found the mousemat a good representation of the way most people thought about Gershon.
Mick
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