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

NTEN

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. Free and Open - Any and all subjects are fair game. All topics and sessions are subject to change.). Register today!

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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. That’s what’s true right at this moment.

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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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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. That’s what’s true right at this moment. That’s what’s true right at this moment.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Be Helpful.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It was really hard to try and write new applications building on a framework I’d written a while ago, while simultaneously improving that framework, and keeping up with new things such as Ajax and RSS, mostly by myself. But that was not so often, and, as staff in that organization left over time, that relationship changed.

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

Care2

To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur. Thats because to-date, the major constituent relationship management databases didnt have open platform APIs. But widgets are just the beginning.

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