How-to Writing the Patch for Communication Gaps
Don’t let a debrief go to waste. The SF Chronicle’s Michael Grant explains how to dig deeper, solve longstanding communication problems, and support the development and implementation of new ideas.
How-to How to Run Projects on Time—and Keep Your Sanity
Vox’s director of editorial products on how to set up the processes you need to run healthy projects and a jubilant team.
How-to Better Documentation Is Within Reach
Good docs help people use your work, but they have other benefits too. They encourage community contributions. They save you from your past self when you’re revisiting your own code six months from now. And they help you think: much like talking to a rubber duck helps you find bugs, carefully documenting your work for users helps you see it from a different perspective and design better code.
Tool ProPublica’s News Apps Guides
Yesterday morning, the ProPublica apps team released a series of documents outlining their coding philosophy, app design and development practices, data validation techniques, and more. We spoke with Scott Klein about how his team’s processes evolved and how they made the time to document it all.
Project Fast Hacks: Solr and Newscoop
News startups in and around Georgia helped improve search in Newscoop content management system using Solr.
Project Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map
How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.
