[sf-perl] Is Perl helping Mother Jones to cope?

Joseph Brenner doomvox at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 10:52:10 PDT 2012


> For an organization of our size and resources, scaling has been mostly about finding the right folks to outsource the things to.

Yeah, I was going to ask about that myself.  I couldn't imagine that
you'd want to host that video on your own servers.



On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM, smurph <smurph at smurph.org> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> There's not a lot of Perl in our stack here at Mother Jones right now. For
> an organization of our size and resources, scaling has been mostly about
> finding the right folks to outsource the things to.  I'd be happy to chat
> about it on Tuesday though.
>
> The Perl Mongers community, however, has been really great for keeping up
> with what folks are doing out there on other parts of the web.  For example,
> here is a data vizualization that we did using the D3 library you presented
> about earlier in the year:
>
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/interactive-chart-super-pac-election-money
>
> -smurph
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Rich Morin wrote:
>
>> Mother Jones has gotten more than a little publicity recently.  I
>> suspect that this has caused a slew of web hits.  So, I'm wondering
>> if we might be able to get some informal comments next week on how
>> Perl is helping them to cope.
>>
>> -r
>>
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