Comments on: FEC News Script Returns from Oblivion http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/05/20/fec-news-script-returns-from-oblivion/ Derek Willis' weblog on investigative and computer-assisted reporting. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/05/20/fec-news-script-returns-from-oblivion/comment-page-1/#comment-128329 Ben Wed, 28 May 2008 20:43:04 +0000 http://blog.thescoop.org/?p=5118#comment-128329 Cool. Anything else I can pitch in on? I had fun last night. I don't get to do contribs much anymore, so it's nice to feel like I'm back in the game. On the same tip, I've got a quick and dirty homebrew pull-and-parse on the new zip files of lobby filings put up by SOPR. Maybe we should open source that. Cool. Anything else I can pitch in on? I had fun last night. I don’t get to do contribs much anymore, so it’s nice to feel like I’m back in the game.

On the same tip, I’ve got a quick and dirty homebrew pull-and-parse on the new zip files of lobby filings put up by SOPR. Maybe we should open source that.

]]> By: Derek http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/05/20/fec-news-script-returns-from-oblivion/comment-page-1/#comment-128327 Derek Wed, 28 May 2008 12:19:09 +0000 http://blog.thescoop.org/?p=5118#comment-128327 Sweet! Looks great to me. I'm going to be adding some other stuff later tonight, I hope. Sweet! Looks great to me. I’m going to be adding some other stuff later tonight, I hope.

]]> By: Ben http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/05/20/fec-news-script-returns-from-oblivion/comment-page-1/#comment-128326 Ben Wed, 28 May 2008 10:46:16 +0000 http://blog.thescoop.org/?p=5118#comment-128326 I'm at github/palewire. I forked your fec-utilities tonight and put in a little time out in the woodshop. I tried to build out your filings scrape, break the RSS creation independent of the news function so it could serve both scrapes, and then upgrade it to RSS 2.0. They passed validation tests after I pulled the trigger, but I'm up pretty late over here so something is probably off. http://github.com/palewire/fec-utilities/tree/master/fec.py I’m at github/palewire.

I forked your fec-utilities tonight and put in a little time out in the woodshop. I tried to build out your filings scrape, break the RSS creation independent of the news function so it could serve both scrapes, and then upgrade it to RSS 2.0. They passed validation tests after I pulled the trigger, but I’m up pretty late over here so something is probably off.

http://github.com/palewire/fec-utilities/tree/master/fec.py

]]> By: Derek http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/05/20/fec-news-script-returns-from-oblivion/comment-page-1/#comment-128312 Derek Sun, 25 May 2008 22:32:29 +0000 http://blog.thescoop.org/?p=5118#comment-128312 Cool - glad to have you along, man. Where's your github location? Cool – glad to have you along, man. Where’s your github location?

]]> By: Ben http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2008/05/20/fec-news-script-returns-from-oblivion/comment-page-1/#comment-128303 Ben Sun, 25 May 2008 19:07:35 +0000 http://blog.thescoop.org/?p=5118#comment-128303 Not to freak you out or anything, but I am following you on github. I keep a lot of my work stuff there, but I'm also starting move in woodshopping materials. My mission for the summer is to learn some Processing with Ben Fry's new book. You've inspired me to published whatever crap I come up with on there as well. Not to freak you out or anything, but I am following you on github. I keep a lot of my work stuff there, but I’m also starting move in woodshopping materials. My mission for the summer is to learn some Processing with Ben Fry’s new book. You’ve inspired me to published whatever crap I come up with on there as well.

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