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- The swift and simple changes we are calling for today [to encourage councils to publish spending data] will unleash an army of armchair auditors and quite rightly make those charged with doling out the pennies stop and think twice about whether they are getting value for money.
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- %p.right — Eric Pickles, Communities & Local Government Secretary, 5 June 2010
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- This website was designed and written by
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- Adrian Short.
- You can contact me by email at
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- adrian.short@gmail.com
- and
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- follow me on Twitter.
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- This site is made with
- %a{ :href => 'http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/finance_payments_to_suppliers.htm' }<
- the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead's spending data
- and is entirely indepdendent of the council. The council did not commission or pay for this website.
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- %p Every page on this website prints beautifully.
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- This site is written in
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- Ruby
- using the
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- Sinatra framework.
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- The code for this website is
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- open source and managed on Github.
- It is hosted by
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- Heroku.
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- The page templates use
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- Haml
- and SprySoft's
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- Variable Grid System.
- The database is
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- SQLite
- for development and
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- PostgreSQL
- for production, abstracted through
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- DataMapper.
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- Source control and deployment is done with
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- Git.
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