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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Google Spreadsheets

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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. Tags: nptech , google , spreadsheet And it might take a while to get your account.

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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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CommunityOne West and JavaOne: Free Event in San Francisco for Open Source Developers and Other Techies for Good

NTEN

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. Register today! developers.sun.com/events/communityone.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

New applications and technologies. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. note: This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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Keeping up with the news

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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