Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. And I struggled mightily with my own capacity to build really good applications mostly without other developers to help out.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 10, 2006

Take a look: you'll find that the program has a nice, crisp responsiveness unusual in a web app, showing off the Google development team's expertise with Ajax. But the application provides only the simplest subset of Excel capability. Last week Google announced their new Spreadsheets offering.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. So it's what's on my mind.

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TechNode

AUGUST 8, 2023

ChatGPT, the large language model from OpenAI, was estimated to have 100 million monthly active users in June, making it the fastest-growing application in history. With Apples recent stepping up of its interest in AI applications, the need for Foxconns support has increased. Foxconn has taken the global lead in the AI server market.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Take a look.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. He also points us to books, languages, and application frameworks - like this survey of five new "rails"-like application frameworks for php.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

How can you possibly keep up with all the new little internet-based software applications being placed online everyday? The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers. In addition to telling us about the applications, he follows their fortunes in the trade press and blogosphere.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. EDS fellow Charlie Bess, writing this week suggests the "Web 2.0" So what does Charlie want?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. That’s what’s true right at this moment. But that’s another blog entry, isn’t it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

New applications and technologies. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. note: This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] .

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Out of all this work, a software application was born, called MEMBERS ONLY, a modular application for nonprofit CRM. I'd also invite people to look into Ajax and related approaches when they are updating the interactive parts of their website to move their ecommerce look and feel forward. We also do consulting.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

Allowing the use of your key business applications from multiple sites. I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn: "New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies."

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Anyone who has ever written an AJAX application will likely agree that while it makes sense from a security perspective, the "same origin policy" is the root of all evil. ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ajax Ajax Systems makes professional security systems in Europe. i3 Engineering “The complete solution for Smart Home projects and business’s automation, which consists of controllers mounted on a DIN-rail, software and mobile application.” It includes a smart hardware device and a mobile application.” It has raised $14.7

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

applications every day. After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. Hallmarks of Web 2.0

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