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. 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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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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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn: "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 fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies."

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

And its not just making waves among industry pundits following Yahoo's twists and turns - it's big news for developers who want to use new approaches to web applications - like Ajax - without spending - or charging - a fortune to build or buy code to do it. 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

JUNE 23, 2006

Programming If you're a web developer eager to get your feet wet with the new Ajax techniques but not sure where to start, take a look at Ajax Hacks , by Bruce W. I have a strong feeling The Semantic Web is a part of the Next Big Thing.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

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. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] .

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

She also features interviews with the developers of projects that catch her interest. You should regularly monitor eHub if you want to see what the developers are up to out there. But while I've known about eHub for a long time, somehow I was oblivious to Max Kiesler's mHub site. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 2, 2006

Programming: Google has released the Google Web Toolkit , a programming framework for AJAX development that takes a very new approach to Javascript development. It allows the programmer to work in Java, which it then translates to browser-independent javascript.

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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.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

We see that the trend to make more and more services available via the web has brought xml-based webservices and innovative web-development techniques to the fore. And since these services are now an accepted standard, most up-to-date website development languages and frameworks offer built-in support for them. Business rules change.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

His most recent post describes an Ajax-based chatroom service you can add to your blog or website with just a few includes. Emily Change is an award-winning web developer, designer, and consultant based in San Francisco. But she posts longer pieces too, often interviews with the development team responsible for some new application.

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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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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

Of course technology is developing rapidly and there are new tools and techniques you'd be a fool not to explore -- in fact there are quite a few I will urge you to take a look at. But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

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. I'd also invite people to look into Ajax and related approaches when they are updating the interactive parts of their website to move their ecommerce look and feel forward. and nonprofits?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

That said, there are three pillars to Open: Convio APIs: develop custom applications to interact with your Convio data Convio Extensions: engage social media outlets like Facebook and get your message where your constituents want to be. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Mapping is the process of developing a map of all things you are doing to generate conversation, sharing, and collaboration as a social media maker. These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

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

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