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Your Nonprofit Should be Using Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By creating a script with pronunciation as well as a pre-recorded audio file, you’ll have a better chance of your PSA airing since you provided a variety of options. You’ll need to have the spot produced professionally if you don’t have someone on your team who can edit videos and provide at least a.mov or.mp4 file.

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Amazon S3 for web server backup

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We have a script going which runs by cron daily to do the backups. We started using S3fs as a way to mount an S3 bucket in the filesystem, then just copy the files to S3. One of the scripts we’ve use is here. (We We’ve been using it for “offsite&# backup for drupal sites for a while now. We also use rsync.)

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Safe by Design: How to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Byte Technology

When you host server can’t find a specific file, by default it will display a page showing the contents of your directory—installed plugins, themes and the like—that’s easily readable by anybody. If you see a link pointing to the file you’ve created, directory browsing is enabled. Enter a script within your “functions.php” file.

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

I went to school for music education and, up until this point, had a long-winding road learning how to write code in Google Apps Script. I’d never coded anything before diving into Google Apps Script a few years earlier. Over the years, simple scripts took shape that developed into more complex scripts that became indispensable.

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WordPress 2.7

Judi Sohn

Turns out that there was something in one of the files in our custom theme that the upgrade didn’t like. I’d also like to find a plug-in or Greasemonkey script which makes the font in the WYSIWYG editing window a little larger. This was the day for it. I upgraded C3’s site to WordPress 2.7 this morning. WordPress 2.7’s

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