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

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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. Tags: cloud computing CommunityOne NPTech nptech event Open Source.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

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This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. 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.

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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. Tags: nptech , google , spreadsheet

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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. Tags: nptech And now for something completely different I wonder what Nick Carr thinks about the cultural impact of this new technology ?

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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. So it's what's on my mind.

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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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.