programming Links
- 1 link
-
-
-
Ryan said:
This book is a data-focused remix of "Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist," the book Adrian Holovaty often recommends to journalists who want to get started with Django.
Quote: Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. Added: February 5, 2010 at 12:16PM EST
-
- 2 links
-
-
-
Ryan said:
Another take on the iPad -- and the reaction to it from some technologists -- that's a bit closer to how I feel about both.
Quote: Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Added: January 29, 2010 at 5:04PM EST
-
- 3 links
-
-
-
Ryan said:
Chris Amico is writing a bit of a guide for journalists looking to get started with Django.
Quote: Here's another parallel to learning to speak Chinese. You will make dumb mistakes. You will break things. You will spend days hunting for the one misplaced comma that turns your beautiful application into an ugly stack trace. Added: January 27, 2010 at 7:14AM EST
-
- 5 links
-
-
-
Ryan said:
Publish2's Daniel Bachhuber is on this list of journalism students that don't necessarily spend a lot of time writing inverted pyramid stories.
Added: December 2, 2009 at 3:53PM EST
-
- 1 link
-
-
-
Ryan said:
Like Wordle? Check out this improvement on the concept, comparing two speeches, or two stories, and mapping the common vocabulary in each. This was done with Processing. (Spotted via infosthetics.com)
Added: November 17, 2009 at 10:20AM EST
-
- 1 link
-
-
-
Ryan said:
Looks useful: An API for location services, tie-ins to the iPhone SDK, Twitter, Flickr, and other data.
Added: November 13, 2009 at 9:28AM EST
-
- 1 link
-
-
-
Ryan said:
So, your news organization wants an iPhone app of its own, but doesn't want to shell out for a developer with the skills to make it slick? Here's a list of approaches that don't require as much programming knowledge to put together a finished app.
Quote: These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting. Added: November 4, 2009 at 2:34PM EST
-
- 1 link
-
-
-
Ryan said:
A somewhat useful tutorial on using the Twitter API.
In this case, the approach involves a PHP library, and somehow comes out more complicated than other versions I've seen, but it's worth a shot if you already sling a little PHP on the side.
Added: August 20, 2009 at 7:46AM EDT
-
- 1 link
-
- daniel_jacobson: NPR is now displaying full transcripts on the site. Full transcripts are also available in the API - http://bit.ly/EIrhb @daniel_jacobson
- @daniel_jacobson
-
-
Ryan said:
I love what NPR has been up to lately. Full transcripts of everything, in the API? A lot of searchable material there...
Added: July 27, 2009 at 6:23PM EDT
- 1 link
-
-
-
Ryan said:
Regina McCombs apparently talked with a posse of great hacker journalists over the last couple days for insight into Everyblock's code and its open-source release. Great stuff in here from some familiar friends.
Added: July 3, 2009 at 9:29AM EDT
-