.grid_9 %h1= @page_title = "About this website" %blockquote 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. %p.right — Eric Pickles, Communities & Local Government Secretary, 5 June 2010 %p.vcard This website was designed and written by %a.fn.url{ :href => 'http://adrianshort.co.uk' }< Adrian Short. You can contact me by email at %a.email{ :href => "mailto:adrian.short@gmail.com" }< adrian.short@gmail.com and %a.url{ :href => "http://twitter.com/adrianshort" }< follow me on Twitter. %p.highlight 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. %p Every page on this website prints beautifully. %p This site is written in %a{ :href => "http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/" }< Ruby using the %a{ :href => "http://www.sinatrarb.com/" }< Sinatra framework. %p The code for this website is %a{ :href => "http://github.com/adrianshort/Armchair-Auditor" }< open source and managed on Github. It is hosted by %a{ :href => "http://heroku.com/" }< Heroku. %p The page templates use %a{ :href => "http://haml-lang.com/" }< Haml and SprySoft's %a{ :href => "http://www.spry-soft.com/grids/" }< Variable Grid System. The database is %a{ :href => "http://www.sqlite.org/" }< SQLite for development and %a{ :href => "http://www.postgresql.org/" }< PostgreSQL for production, abstracted through %a{ :href => "http://datamapper.org/" }< DataMapper. %p Source control and deployment is done with %a{ :href => "http://git-scm.com/" }< Git.