Posts by Paul S Williams

Shiny new UK.gov stats website a 'disaster' - MPs

Re: Downloads?

Because sharing data through a database isn't a very 'open' solution, raw data in open standards allows futureproofing, and less RDMS licensing!!

gov.uk or ons.gov.uk???

My understanding is that gov.uk has been a groundbreaking reworking of directgov, using agile development methods. Its been held as a flagship agile project, hoping to make the methodology and related culture more acceptable to government software contracting. If this site is mistakenly suggesting the problems are on gov.uk rather than, as I believe it ons.gov.uk (a separately managed site) then maybe this should be made more clear...