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Tuesday, September 3

Seems the UK 1901 census is back online again. At first glance I can't see what all the fuss was about, as the information available is pretty minimal. But I suppose it's a sign that e-government is creeping slowly towards us. Well-placed friends tell me that the reason it went down when it was first launched is reflected in the time it has taken (9 months) to get it back online again - it was badly designed by people who didn't understand how to build scalable systems. I just hope that people building web services are better informed and realise that the programming at the end-points is more important than the data format in the pipes once things start running.

posted at 9:56 AM (UK) | |

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