The blog has been a bit quiet lately (to the disappointment of very few, I’m sure) — but we’ve been releasing apps and blogging furiously over at our team site. Here’s a roundup of our recent posts:
Tools we love to use
- Quick-install Python/PostGIS geo stack on Snow Leopard
- Deploying ProPublica’s awesome table-setter tables to S3 using Fabric
- Quickly visualize and map a data set using Google Fusion Tables
Development techniques and best practices we’ve discovered
- Best practices in web development with Python and Django
- Advanced django project layout
- Refactoring fabfile.py for fast, robust Django deployment
- Fun with widgets and caching
Sharing our infrastructure
- Hello, Newsroom: a simple GeoDjango application
- Our GeoDjango Amazon EC2 image for news apps
- Nerd post roundup and preview (plus: our server architecture!)
For links to our recent projects, and to keep up on our work, visit apps.chicagotribune.com!
