Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. . * Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. I know we have disagreed about this in the past.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They sometimes deal with vendors and developers that don’t really understand their mission, don’t speak their language, and don’t tell them the truth (whether intentionally, or by a lack of self-examination.) I very much look forward to your re-emergence from the IT wilderness! 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07

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JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. I also use the five love languages, but we don’t have time for that today. Twitter | LinkedIn | The post [VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality appeared first on Bloomerang. Oh, my gosh. I use it in my family. On every team I run.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Jon Stahl, in his comments on my first post in this series said: “a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps.&#

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