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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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. And the file is very easy for a human to read. So it's what's on my mind. But JSON hasn't helped us with the formatting issues.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. and work on work files from a home computer. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . New applications and technologies. are being developed at a rapid pace. if not free) technologies. Recognize the.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

A recent offering, for example, describes a method for building a tabbed notebook with CSS, and then using a simple Ajax-y technique to load each page of the notebook as it is opened with content laid out in another html file. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

So we've just started developing an Ajax -based web calendar that can take its information from a variety of different sources, and allow authorized users to edit the calendars over the web. I see Ajax emerging as a very important tool that will help both non-profits and businesses build more responsive and active public websites.

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Cake vs. Symfony

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites. A Two-Minute History of Web Metrics: Tim Berners-Lee , a long time ago, invented the world wide web.

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