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Apps

Before doing any of this, be sure to run all of the OS updates that are available.

Downloads:

• Chrome
• Chrome Canary
• Firefox
• Atom
• iTerm2

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Creating the election

In the admin (elections-admin.dallasnews.com/admin), go to elections > add election > setup election

Entering races

• Log in at elections-admin.dallasnews.com
• Choose election
• Under Results Entry, click Edit metadata
• Click Add Race
• Fill out the following form
• Jursidiction: Only required if it's not a federal or state government level race that the AP will not provide metadata for

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document.onkeydown = function(evt) {
    evt = evt || window.event;
    if (evt.keyCode == 27) {
        alert('Esc key pressed.');
    }
};

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/*
================================================================================
CREATE POPUP CONTENT

Creates the content that populates the popup
================================================================================
*/

function createPopupContent(feature) {
  // grab the id property from the feature we've selected

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<!-- this small piece of html would be inside a larger template that's being used to draw something, such as a post -->

<ul>
  {{#each pills}} <!-- your each function called on an array that's part of your data object -->
    <li>{{getPillText this}}</li> <!-- passing the value of your array to a helper function (first argument in this template tag -->
  {{#/each}}
</ul>

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• Create election in elections admin
• Enter race meta data
• Set up clarity scrapers for local county races
• Set up any Collin County race results to be clerked, including clerks
• Pair race meta data with race aliases from scrapers
• Pair candidates
• Create a new homepage in the django admin
• Set up the featured races for the homepage module
• !!! Need Allan to remind me how to preview the homepage modules and get the embed codes
• Create a new liveblog in the datalab/admin

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Early Oct. 2019, I ran into a problem on our Voter Guide where Circle Ci would fail before tests would even run. I could get a basic sense of what was happening via the Circle-Ci interface, but the problem wasn't immediately evident.

After consulting with Andrew Chavez, he pointed me to a page that explains how to SSH into a build running on Circle-Ci to run the commands step-by-step in an attempt to debug the problem.

After SSH-ing in, and cd-ing into the directory on the running build (in this case, cd voter-guide), you're able to run the commands listed in the circle-ci/config.yaml file in the project and seeing the read-out within the terminal as you go along.

In this instance, part of the setup process of the circle ci box involves running this command, which pulls a setup file for Nodejs v 8.x and installs it:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -

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export default function (values) {
  // sort value strings alphabetically
  values.sort((a, b) => {
    if (a.toLowerCase() < b.toLowerCase()) return -1;
    if (a.toLowerCase() > b.toLowerCase()) return 1;
    return 0;
  });

  // find select element/elements
  const selects = document.querySelectorAll('<<selector name>>');