Archive for March 8th, 2007

Conference notes, Vol. 2 »

By William M. Hartnett on Mar 8, 2007 in CAR | 0 Comments

A bit of Django this afternoon, and a dazzling, if utterly confusing, panel about “smart text” at The New York Times. I’ll confess to not understanding large portions of the technical aspects, but it appears as though the NYT people are building the newsroom information equivalent of WMD. They probably have this very post indexed [...]

Conference notes, Vol. 1 »

By William M. Hartnett on Mar 8, 2007 in CAR | 0 Comments

Interesting session at the conference this morning in which Daniel Lathrop and Chase Davis compared Perl and Python. I’ve hit a few Perl books and hated every second of it, so Python sounds more up my alley. My dark, foreboding, programming-phobic alley.
Decent panel discussion on newsroom intranets, despite the fact that neither of the scheduled [...]