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!