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2024
Nov. 19 • CUNY students, we want you
Oct. 30 • Introducing a new delivery system for data journalism
2021
May 09 • Liberating the public art on L.A.’s light rail lines
May 02 • Introducing the e.e. cummings free poetry archive
Feb. 23 • #NICAR21 After Party
2020
March 21 • Flash MOOC: First Python Notebook
2018
April 14 • My Times
2017
Sept. 09 • What I learned
2016
April 18 • Pulitzer pride
March 06 • "First News App" rides again at NICAR 2016
2015
Dec. 03 • Who they were
Nov. 12 • Estado de las artes
Oct. 15 • An unexpected award
Sept. 29 • L.A. Times liveblog now nationwide
Sept. 28 • Introducing Memento for Wordpress
July 22 • California Civic Data Coalition named winner of Knight News Challenge
May 12 • Introducing django-memento-framework
April 16 • Join the 2015 CAL-ACCESS challenge
April 14 • California Civic Data Coalition advances in Knight News Challenge
Feb. 11 • "First News App," a second time around
2014
July 25 • Django recipe: Base management command for running custom SQL
2013
July 18 • Why develop in the newsroom
July 08 • Where will Downtown L.A.'s Regional Connector run?
2012
March 26 • Leaflet recipe: Hover events on features and polygons
Feb. 25 • NICAR 2012: Things I said
2011
Dec. 05 • Q&A: Matt Waite on the founding of the Drone Journalism Lab
Sept. 26 • Q&A: Miranda Mulligan dishes on responsive design
Aug. 14 • Q&A: Brian Boyer on the plan for PANDA
Feb. 26 • How to break news on Google App Engine
Feb. 24 • PostGIS is your new bicycle
2010
Dec. 16 • Introducing Pluggable Maps for GeoDjango
Nov. 10 • Q&A: Zain Memon tells how Tendermaps works
Nov. 07 • Django recipe: Twitter-style infinite scroll
March 24 • Fabric recipe: Delete pyc files before runserver starts
March 10 • Google Charts takes the Tufte Challenge
2009
Oct. 29 • Django recipe: Dynamically load a Google Maps API key
Oct. 24 • L.A. County should just say no to PDFs
Sept. 04 • Django recipe: Pretty print objects and querysets
Sept. 01 • Django recipe: Remove newlines from a text block
Sept. 01 • Python recipe: Fetch all the days between two dates
Aug. 23 • Django recipe: Make an RSS feed for every tag
Aug. 13 • Django recipe: Use extent of a queryset to set the zoom
Aug. 07 • Python Recipe: Calculate adjusted monthly values
Aug. 05 • Google Voice fails the Obama test
Aug. 01 • Django recipe: A django-tagging cloud for all models
July 29 • New, improved, even more conspicuous consumption
July 25 • This is palewire
March 16 • OCTO: DC police cite privacy to rollback public access to crime data
March 04 • OpenLayers Recipe: How to map proportional symbols
March 03 • Django recipe: Dump your QuerySet out as a CSV file
Feb. 15 • Django recipe: Add an auto-count field to your model
2008
Sept. 18 • Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook
July 20 • How we got here, or Which past are we prolouging again?
July 06 • Permalinks, low-rent data viz and other stupid Caspio tricks
June 23 • Tickertube, Ben's first stab at Amazon Web Services
June 15 • Terminal Recipe: Download an entire Web site with wget
June 01 • Ben's hip hop Twitter bot
May 26 • California's War Dead
May 19 • LA red light cameras on your TomTom or Garmin
May 18 • Bill O'Reilly Flips Out, The Ringtone
April 27 • Ubuntu Recipe: Post your Last.fm feed to Twitter
April 26 • Python Recipe: Connect to MySQL, query, print the results
April 21 • Python Recipe: Print a future date in the format you want
April 20 • Python Recipe: Grab page, scrape table, download file
April 14 • Python Recipe: Read file, find pattern, print matches
April 07 • Python Recipe: Open files, find matches, count hits
April 05 • Python Recipe: Open a file, read it, print matching lines
March 24 • Go snoop yourself
2007
Feb. 14 • SQL Recipe: Federal gov't working days between two dates
Feb. 08 • How much does George Bush read?