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.
— Eric Pickles, Communities & Local Government Secretary, 5 June 2010
This site is made with spending data from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and is entirely indepdendent of the council. The council did not commission or pay for this website.
This website was designed and written by Adrian Short. You can contact me by email at adrian.short@gmail.com and follow me on Twitter.
All the data here is open data. It's free for you to use and republish, including commercially, under the same terms as data.gov.uk.
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This site is written in Ruby using the Sinatra framework.
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The page templates use Haml and SprySoft's Variable Grid System. The database is SQLite for development and PostgreSQL for production, abstracted through DataMapper.
Source control and deployment is done with Git.