Merge pull request #1044 from MITx/feature/brian/press-updates

Feature/brian/press updates

common/djangoapps/student/views.py

@@ -98,6 +98,19 @@ def course_from_id(course_id):
     course_loc = CourseDescriptor.id_to_location(course_id)
     return modulestore().get_instance(course_id, course_loc)
 
+import re
+day_pattern = re.compile('\s\d+,\s')
+multimonth_pattern = re.compile('\s?\-\s?\S+\s')
+
+def get_date_for_press(publish_date):
+    import datetime
+    # strip off extra months, and just use the first:
+    date = re.sub(multimonth_pattern, ", ", publish_date)
+    if re.search(day_pattern, date):
+        date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, "%B %d, %Y") 
+    else: 
+        date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, "%B, %Y") 
+    return date
 
 def press(request):
     json_articles = cache.get("student_press_json_articles")
@@ -110,6 +123,7 @@ def press(request):
             json_articles = json.loads(content)
         cache.set("student_press_json_articles", json_articles)
     articles = [Article(**article) for article in json_articles]
+    articles.sort(key=lambda item: get_date_for_press(item.publish_date), reverse=True)
     return render_to_response('static_templates/press.html', {'articles': articles})
 
 

lms/templates/index.html

@@ -128,17 +128,18 @@
         </section>
         <section class="press-links">
           <h3>edX in the News:</h3>
-          ##<a href="${reverse('press/mit-and-harvard-announce-edx')}">The edX Press Release</a>
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/education/edlife/anant-agarwal-discusses-free-online-courses-offered-by-a-harvard-mit-partnership.html">New York Times</a>,
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2012/07/14/anant-agarwal-believes-online-education-from-mit-and-harvard-should-available-all/Af0kX44dPqpBKRV2IOSjPP/story.html"target="_blank" >Boston Globe</a>,
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/20/harvard-and-mit-create-edx-free-university-courses_n_1612143.html?utm_hp_ref=uk">Huffington Post</a>,
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://gigaom.com/cloud/everybody-codes/">GigaOM</a>,
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mitx-edx-first-course-recap-0716.html">MIT News</a>,
-          ##<a target="_blank" href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/review-mitxs-online-circuit-design-and-analysis-course">IEEE Spectrum</a>,
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/07/harvard-extended">Harvard Magazine</a>,
-          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-24/berkeley-joins-harvard-mit-offering-free-online-classes.html">Bloomberg</a>
-          ## <a target="_blank" href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/uc-berkeley-joins-edx-effort-to-offer-free-open-courses/37969">The Chronicle of Higher Education</a>
-
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19661899">BBC</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506351/the-most-important-education-technology-in-200-years/">Technology Review</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N48/edxvmware.html">The Tech</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html">The New York Times</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/us-education-courses-online-idUSBRE89I17120121019">Reuters</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/73030f44-d4dd-11e1-9444-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2A9qvk48A">Financial Times</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/10/25/vmware-offers-free-virtualization-software-for-edx-computer-science-students.aspx">Campus Technology</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/san-jose-state-u-says-replacing-live-lectures-with-videos-increased-test-scores/40470">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421577&c=1">Times Higher Education</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-15/university-of-texas-joining-harvard-mit-online-venture.html">Bloomberg.com</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-15/university-of-texas-joining-harvard-mit-online-venture">BusinessWeek</a>,
+          <a target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/univ-texas-joins-online-course-program-edx-172202035--finance.html">Associated Press</a>
           <a href="${reverse('press')}" class="read-more">Read More &rarr;</a>
         </section>
       </section>