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Advice from #djangocon 2010 Django-in-Journalism open-session
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| Suggestions from the 11 hackers at the table: | |
| * Use connection pooling (pgpool). | |
| * Don't expect reporters to get excited until you can show them something. (Find a way to appeal to reporters interests.) | |
| * Only update what's changed. (e.g. on election results: show changes, not raw numbers) | |
| * Use the AP's "dbready" format for election results. | |
| * Use CSV for everything. | |
| * Use pdb with runserver for debugging. | |
| * Beware circular imports when using Haystack. | |
| * Make the case for building news apps with government data. (Niran will provide numbers showing that people look at it.) | |
| * Let's not reinvent the wheel. (Open source code.) | |
| * Use a logger. Make using it part of your nromal development practice. | |
| * Make your testing/deploying process automated so that you can't deploy bad code at 4am. | |
| * Use git. | |
| * Verify your query counts. Make sure you know what Django is doing. | |
| * Use Varnish. | |
| * Use flot. | |
| Tech blogs for more: | |
| http://apps.chicagotribune.com | |
| http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/sandbox/ |
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