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Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on December 20, 2009
As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday. I spent that week working with a small team at Guardian HQ to prepare for the release. Here’s what we built:
http://mps-expenses2.guardian.co.uk/
It’s a crowdsourcing application that asks the public to help us ...
Django Unit Tests and Transactions
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on July 7, 2008
Django Unit Tests and Transactions. If you’re using a transactional database engine (MySQL with InnoDB, Postgres or SQLite) you can speed things up by running each of your unit tests inside a transaction and rolling back in tearDown().
