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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.
    
  %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 
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      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.
  
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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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