Some answers:

* Yup, curl is a fine way to go about pulling the JSON. There are other good ways, including file_get_contents() but there’s no good reason to use one over the other in your case.

* PHP’s […]

Great Update.

Renzo, here’s a decent CartoDB walk through that I use with my J-School students:
http://amandabee.github.io/CUNY-data-skills/hands-on/mapping.html Feel free to ask questions!

And…I think […]

I visited https://airtime.cunycast.net/ on my phone and my laptop and did not encounter any SSL Certificate errors. So perhaps that is finally resolved?

Glad to see you all making so much progress!

Did you have a chance to look over our suggestions? In particular, the Django DocumentCloud app is probably overkill if all you want is to connect search results to […]

Just wanted to add, for team Digital HUAC: we looked at where you are thus far and we’re thinking that you can get where you need to be much more quickly with PHP.

If you’ve gotten far enough in Python that […]

Folks,

Luke’s observation re. tags notwithstanding (seriously. TAGS!) I’m really impressed with how well this has gelled and I’m optimistic that this will be a great contribution.

Sounds like you’re making loads of great progress.

MVP #1 Doesn’t describe a product — “something that makes x, y and z easy to use” isn’t explicit enough. Is that a command line tool? A set of instructions? […]

It sounds like you’re making great progress.

Did you have a chance to dial in a description of your minimum viable product yet?

MySQL is still a powerful database. Postgres is More Free, but not in ways that we’re going to come up against this semester.

MySQL is easier to learn than Postgres and there are more resources geared towards […]

Please, please, please use your project tags!

Folks,

Sorry I was blanking on this earlier, but the full-text search engine I was thinking of is called SOLR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr

for a modest sample set, MySQL or Postgres is not […]

Adding to Luke’s response here, I’d like to see you looking at other document archives, beyond just Old Bailey, for inspiration and guidance.

And since this is very much a *story* project (as opposed to a tool […]

Folks,
I’m glad to see all of these projects coming together. Please keep in mind that an abstract is abstract. It isn’t the place for specifics about what kind of file types you plan to accommodate or produce. […]

Note: I only see 9 posts under the “skillset” tag. If you emailed it to us, that’s great, but you also need to post your skillset publicly for your classmates and tag it “skillset”.