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. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it. It's certainly big news.

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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

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. She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

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. 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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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. You can just assign the entire XML string to a div's innerHTML, and let your stylesheet handle the formatting.

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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

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. Emily Change is an award-winning web developer, designer, and consultant based in San Francisco.

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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

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. Another developer critical of the millennial tone of web 2.0 So what does Charlie want?

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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. If you want to learn more about CORS and Access-Control-Allow-Origin, the Mozilla Developer Network has an article with lots of useful information.

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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. These are important developments with a whole lot of potential to change the way we use the web and what we can do with it.

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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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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. If you read my blog entries here and here , I have an ambivalence about how important some of these developments are for non-profits at the moment. Along the line we incorporated it as MEMBERS ONLY SOFTWARE.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

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. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Both of them seem to be PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails. 3 TJ Sondermann 11.06.08

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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. { 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 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 At this point, I use Web 2.0

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