On 15/10/2013 4:21 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
How great to finally have government information systems built by hipsters....
Hardly hipsters. The project was outsourced to CGI Federal :). There are certainly parallels here with gov.uk, but gov.uk has been a resounding success. It's a bit like one of those UK TV shows like Fawlty Towers that gets remade in the US and fails miserably. However, gov.uk, like most sensible startups, had the good sense to use the elastic cloud. Once you know how much capacity you need you can always bring it back in house.
It's so bad even the github repo page 404s.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/healthcaregov-code-developed-by-the-people-and-for-the-people-released-back-to-the-people/277295/ A great quote from the article: Jekyll, for those who are unfamiliar with web-development trends, is a way for developers to build a static website from dynamic components. Instead of running a traditional website with a relational database and server-side code, using Jekyll enables programmers to create content like they create code. The end result of this approach is a site that loads faster for users, a crucial performance issue, particularly on mobile devices. "Instead of [running] farms of application servers to handle massive load, you're basically slimming down to two," said Sivak. "You're just using HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, all being done in responsive design. The way it's being built matters. You could in theory do the same with application servers and a CMS, but it would be much more complex. What we're doing here is giving anyone with basic skills to basic changes on the fly. You don't need expensive consultants." To be fair, the major problems reportedly are not with the UI, but with the back end. IMO, an example of "pig lipstick". PS> For extra laughs, read some of the comments.
For an extra giggle http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1nj692/.
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