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Why Ajax Sucks Most of the Time!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This article, " Why Ajax Sucks " is a spoof article constructed by Chris McEvoy (with apologies to Jakob Nielsen.) " Here's Chris's list of Ajax Mistakes. He is spoofing a 1996 article by Jakob Nielsen called " Why Frames Suck."

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Nonprofit Audit 101

The NonProfit Times

This iframe contains the logic required to handle Ajax powered Gravity Forms. Title * Number of employees * Please enter a number from 0 to 1000000. The post Nonprofit Audit 101 appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Web Design Only Languages?

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

It wont stop there… we will take a gander at different things like, what the hell is AJAX? Follow up articles will examine the points of interest of online advances that every one of these experts use once a day. Dialects like PHP, C#, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and XHTML. Stay tuned! .

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What makes it usable Newer applications are using AJAX and Flash, to give the kinds of functionalities we’ve come to expect with desktop applications – so it’s just like having a desktop application with our data – except it’s “in the cloud&# not on our desk.

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Beaconfire Buzz: April 8, 2011

Allegiance Group

Lots of AJAX-y goodness to be had using the “Placeholder Generator.” Lorem Pixum 250 X 150 Nature Shot. A Tweet Is Worth a Thousand Placeholder Images. How did we ever find placeholder images before @calfman and @nealmeier tweeted [link] ? Put in the height & width dimensions, select an image category (animals, food, abstract, etc.)

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tags: ajax development eclipse dojo javascript ) This entry was posted on Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 8:22 am and is filed under Misc.

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Facebook Linked In Twitter Home About Home Getting Started with the Salesforce.com AJAX Toolkit Getting Started with the Salesforce.com AJAX Toolkit Last Updated on Monday, 24 April 2006 07:42 Written by Steve Monday, 24 April 2006 07:41 I use the Salesforce.com AJAX toolkit. Use the AJAX toolkit. Use the AJAX toolkit.

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tags: ajax code howto javascript ) This entry was posted on Friday, November 24th, 2006 at 8:22 am and is filed under Misc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. This is just what Ajax means to change. To make a long story really short, an Ajax application uses JavaScript to get data from the server whenever it is needed, without requiring the browser to redraw the entire page.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup Blog

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. 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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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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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. I agree - while Google released a very nice Ajax spreadsheet today, they didn't exactly change the world. Last week Google announced their new Spreadsheets offering.

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Programming If you're a web developer eager to get your feet wet with the new Ajax techniques but not sure where to start, take a look at Ajax Hacks , by Bruce W.

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Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn

AFP Blog

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." Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn: "New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Yahoo Javascript Libraries go OpenSource

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And its not just making waves among industry pundits following Yahoo's twists and turns - it's big news for developers who want to use new approaches to web applications - like Ajax - without spending - or charging - a fortune to build or buy code to do it. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

Allegiance Group

AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone? The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering? HTML5 is the latest in a long line of buzzwords — Web 2.0, — around Web Design and Development.

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Facebook Linked In Twitter Home About Home links for 2007-02-01 links for 2007-02-01 Last Updated on Thursday, 1 February 2007 08:26 Written by Steve Thursday, 1 February 2007 08:26 Auto-Complete Lookups hack auto-complete lookups into the sf.com ui (tags: salesforce.com ajax dojo ) Diarised – Arrange a meeting a nice looking meeting wizard (tags: (..)

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Designers and Developers: Back Together Again Through Microformats and JQuery

Allegiance Group

interfaces utilizing RIA technologies like AJAX become more ubiquitous, it's natural to assume that the separation of interface and programming roles would continue to expand and solidify as the skills become more specialized and exacting to master. Every Javascript library says it does that.

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

Allegiance Group

AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone? The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering? HTML5 is the latest in a long line of buzzwords — Web 2.0, — around Web Design and Development.

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

Allegiance Group

AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone? The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering? HTML5 is the latest in a long line of buzzwords — Web 2.0, — around Web Design and Development.

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ARIA - More Than Just a Pretty Tune

Allegiance Group

A few years ago, it seemed most of the new technology buzzwords were music to the web accessibility guru’s ears. Words like standards and XHTML compliance helped developers compose more accessible Web sites. But what about this new generation: Web 2.0,

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

NTEN

AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone -- around Web Design and Development. The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering? HTML5 is the latest in a long line of buzzwords -- Web 2.0,

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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.

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

NTEN

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Java™, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris™, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish™, Apache), databases (MySQL™), and services.

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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At the top of my S-Controls I include Saleforce’s AJAX toolkit, which is what makes them so powerful. But I found that migrating from the old ajax toolkit to the new one did the trick. Just so you know I am not very familiar with Ajax and Javascript, but I know some Java, Perl and SQL.

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

So we've just started developing an Ajax -based web calendar that can take its information from a variety of different sources, and allow authorized users to edit the calendars over the web. I see Ajax emerging as a very important tool that will help both non-profits and businesses build more responsive and active public websites.

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And then check out this gem: …and optimizing performance using the new functionality in SOQL combined with the new AppExchange AJAX toolkit Improvements to SOQL would be awesome! And a new AJAX toolkit–that is seriously exciting. AJAX beta 3.3 All my friends want ORDER BY and joins.

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WordPress vs Drupal. Fight!

NTEN

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.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

A recent offering, for example, describes a method for building a tabbed notebook with CSS, and then using a simple Ajax-y technique to load each page of the notebook as it is opened with content laid out in another html file. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm.

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The Blackbaud Tapes, Part 1 of 2 | Non-Profit Tech Blog

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

geocoding, MS Virtual Earth and Blackbaud and when I hover over the map, it’s actually an example of an AJAX-y web services call where all these guys are talking together and it’s plotted this point on the bird’s eye view of Virtual Earth. AJAX is orthogonal. “We are going to use AJAX more.

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Links Roundup: June 2

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Programming: Google has released the Google Web Toolkit , a programming framework for AJAX development that takes a very new approach to Javascript development. Susan, a law professor at NYU, has an insiders' view of Internet policy - she sits on the board of ICANN.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . New applications and technologies. are being developed at a rapid pace. fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper. (if if not free) technologies.

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The "neigh"sayers take the floor again

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. If Steven created the site with CGI and Perl and used tables for layout, this is the story of a boy who made a website for his own amusement, perhaps gaining social points in the process.

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The DOM methods presented here are not specific to (tags: javascript dom ajax ) This entry was posted on Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 at 8:20 am and is filed under Misc. methods and how to use them from JavaScript. You will learn how to create, access and control, and remove HTML elements dynamically.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

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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