The day after launch -- new stuff in django

We got some good feedback from the Monday night crew after making the transition to django. Here are a few things we have in development this week in response to YOUR suggestions!

Keyboard shortcut for the notes mode: ctrl+shift+N

From Noah: "I tried to make it use F8, but Firefox won't let me override function keys."

Printing from django: Noah is working to add two buttons later this week that will make this happen. This is what I asked him to create, which he said is doable (warning, final version may look different):

1. Button one would export the slug, hed, deck, excerpt, body, author and infobox as just plain text, with the notes highlighted so you can tell what students edited.
2. Button two would export all the same fields, but it wouldn't include notes. This would make it easier to copy plain text back to Falcon for the print product.

One other important update: Reimaging of newsroom computers is on hold. TJ is planning to upgrade all of our computes to the latest version of Mac's Operating System (Leopard), which will allow him to better take care of our computers, monitor printing better, etc. etc. Going to Leopard should also finally fix a good chunk of our printing problems (at least the ones that relate to network connectivity -- the Ricoh printer sucks and will always suck).

Here's the rub: The version of Falcon we have now doesn't work with Leopard. We're still waiting on a Falcon upgrade, and until we have it, we can't go to Leopard. I'll be testing that upgrade tomorrow ASAP. We are doing all we can to get this new image out and improve our computers.

Remember, check out the Missourian Information Systems site to see where we are on our priority list for Web site development or to report errors and bugs and to make feature requests. And you can always check out the DjangoForDjournalists blog for more updates like these.

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