Yesterday morning, the ProPublica apps team released a series of documents outlining their coding philosophy, app design and development practices, data validation techniques, and more. We spoke with Scott Klein about how his team’s processes evolved and how they made the time to document it all.

The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.

The first in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.

This week, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference hits Louisville, Kentucky.

Saturday is International Open Data Day, and there may be a hack event near year.

The For Journalism project aims to create nine brand-new courses for journalists who want to learn how to design and build news applications, and to offer them to individuals and institutions in the fall of 2013.

Hacks/Hackers meet this week in Milano and Birmingham. Plus, two news-related iconathons this month.

Yesterday morning, EveryBlock announced its sudden closure by its parent company, NBC. The news developer and civic code worlds reacted with intense sadness and a recognition of the advances made possible by EveryBlock and its founders.

Sha Hwang and I brought together a panel of four experts—Rachel Binx, Mike Bostock, Tom Carden, and Scott Murray—to talk about their processes last month at San Francisco’s General Assembly. Here’s what we learned.

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen new apps, new map releases, and plenty of community projects and conversations. In the US, the NICAR convention is around the corner (see Chrys Wu’s preparatory write-up). Also, just about everyone got hacked.

Get in application gear: Friday is the last day to apply for the AP-Google Scholarship and session proposals for the IRE conference are due in two weeks.

On the most recent episode of Dave Stanton’s View Source podcast, Chris Amico walks through the process of making Your Warming World.

News startups in and around Georgia helped improve search in Newscoop content management system using Solr.

Google Journalism Fellowship deadline is this week. This weekend, learning with Code with me and hacking with the Sunlight Foundation and Digital Democracy.

Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.

New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and NPR’s Chris Amico break down the data, mapping, and interface details of their collaboration on Your Warming World.

Meetups in Philadelphia, New York, and Madrid on Thursday and learning and hacking this weekend.

In a Q&A; with Source’s Erika Owens, the team behind For Amusement Only explains how it was done.

Interactive features, new code, and blog posts dealing with the problems of working with data and code in and around newsrooms.

Lots of opportunities for learning: events in Philadelphia and Vienna as well as fellowship programs taking applications now.