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

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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. Choose from 70+ expert led talks on: Cloud Platforms - Development and deployment in the cloud.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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WordPress vs Drupal. Fight!

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Michelle Murrain , Drupal Developer, OpenIssue. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x x something, and a developer and user of Drupal since 4.7, Also, this is primarily going to be from the developers point of view, although I’ll talk some about user interface and experience. (A

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions.

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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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Yahoo Javascript Libraries go OpenSource

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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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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