Student Loans Company (SLC) Full Time Application service provides financial support for people studying at universities and colleges throughout the United Kingdom. The service pays loans and non-repayable grants for...
...have taken advantage of the GOV.UK toolkit which skins the product for government services. Use of XML for data interchange is also a sensible choice. There is a need to...
...postcode has been entered in an incorrect format which has got past the autocorrection The format is correct but that postcode is not in the database (perhaps it's a new...
...will be provided for assisted digital and digitally excluded users). Once eligibility has been confirmed, a childcare account will be opened for each child, into which parents and third parties...
...set for the first time? The Problem Take our GOV.UK feedback survey for example, you may have seen it appear in the header of the site from time to time,...
...agreed standard for directories of public services data. It will aim to help users or their support workers find trusted, specific and personalised data that is appropriate for what they...
...applied for. What’s next? We can’t wait to share more about the role our team is playing in making things better for users of government services. Keep a lookout for...
...read the Quality Assurance of Code for Analysis and Research for a detailed look at RAP principles. My colleague Rowan has recently written a blog about building open source tools...
...code-quality metrics (e.g. CodeClimate). Open source Project needs a clearer plan of what code will be released and when. Design Will need to review pinch points of failure as prototype...
...team has completely rebuilt the state machine logic internally, and has refactored the code base for legibility. The code now is well structured. Test coverage has improved vastly from having...
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