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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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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent. As the limitations of both AJAX and Flash are overcome (and as both develop further) expect even more usability for online applications. Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go. Your data is not directly in your hands, but in the hands of a third party.

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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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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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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. All topics and sessions are subject to change.).

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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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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. appear to be incremental improvements and not the radical changes that will be coming from more of a context computing approach, based on location, role, time, function. EDS fellow Charlie Bess, writing this week suggests the "Web 2.0"

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