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

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

What "support" means exactly varies from browser to browser of course, but the point remains — with the advent of HTML5 the internet is fundamentally changing all around us, giving non-profits new and exciting ways to engage constituents online. ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2005

But what do my non-profit users want from the internet? Allowing the use of your key business applications from multiple sites. These are the bread and butter issues facing non-profits and associations, and most of them realize they can still improve significantly in all of these areas. simply irrelevant for most non-profits?

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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. In addition to telling us about the applications, he follows their fortunes in the trade press and blogosphere.

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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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. 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.

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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. { 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. Hallmarks of Web 2.0

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