This page lists some of the tools, services and datasources we used to built the alpha.gov.uk prototype.
Client-side and design
- jQuery
- jQuery UI
- Alternate Gothic No.3′, Clarendon FS Medium, Proxima Nova Light, Proxima Nova Semibold, Stub Serif FS, Reminder Pro Bold fonts from Fontdeck
- 503 error page illustration by Matt Blease
- Google web font loader
Server side
- Ruby on Rails (Ruby web development framework)
- Sinatra (Ruby web development framework)
- Django (Python web development framework)
- MySQL and Postgresql databases
- MaPit geocoding and information service from mySociety
APIs and datasources
- Scraperwiki
- Data.gov.uk Driving Centre API
- Directgov Syndication API
- Foreign Office API
- Direct gov list of local services
- Various other datasets from Data.gov.uk
- Geonames Gazetteer
Servers, hosting and server management
- Varnish (with a little extra load balancing from Amazon Elastic Load Balancer)
- Amazon EC2 running Ubuntu GNU/Linux
- Amazon S3 for backup storage
- Amazon CloudFront is used as a CDN
- Apache web server with mod_passenger
- DNS hosted by bytemark.co.uk
- Jenkins continuous integration server
- Puppet configuration management
Project management and systems
- Index cards
- Magic Whiteboard
- PB Works wiki
- Github code repository
- Lighthouse for bug tracking
- Google Apps
- IRC Cloud
- Hoptoad error alerting service
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