Instant Open API with Rails 2.0
Day 2 at the Ruby on Rails conference – after the Keynote. My main focus is on technology trends that allow us all to make better use of the vast amounts of information that we store in myriad...
View ArticleRails Wrap-up
So, I came to this Rails conference looking for a few things. It’s not over, but I think I’ve got a good sense what I’ll walk away with tomorrow. I started to learn a bit about Rails while considering...
View ArticleMapping NP Salesforce
Day one of the Salesforce Roadmap session was a well-crafted, but fairly standard run at typical strategic planning. Hosted by Aspiration’s ever-able Gunner (who I seem to run into everywhere lately),...
View ArticleShould Non-profits Seed Software Development?
There were a ton of interesting side topics that came up at the Salesforce Non-Profit Roadmap event, but a few hit on some related themes that have long interested me, and they can be summed in two...
View ArticleSmall Footprints, Robotic and Otherwise
Here’s my 11/7/2008 Idealware post, originally published at http://www.idealware.org/blog/2008/11/small-footprints-robotic-and-otherwise.html As the proud owner of a T-Mobile G1, the first phone out...
View ArticleEvaluating Wikis
This post originally appeared on the Idealware Blog in August of 2009. I’m following up on my post suggesting that Wikis should be grabbing a portion of the market from word processors. Wikis are...
View ArticleDrupal 101
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the open source content management system Drupal lately, and thought I’d share some thoughts on how to get a new site up and running. Drupal, you might recall, got...
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Drupal 101: More on Modules
This post originally appeared on the Idealware Blog in October of 2009. Last week, I kicked off this series on setting up a basic web site with Drupal, the popular open source Content Management...
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The Increasing Price We Pay For The Free Internet
Picture : Rhadaway. This is a follow-up on my previous post, A Tale Of Two (Or Three) Facebook Challengers. A key point in that post was that we need to be customers, not commodities. In the cases of...
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How Easy Is It For You To Manage, Analyze And Present Data?
I ask because my articles are up, including my big piece from NTEN’s Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits on Architecting Healthy Data Management Systems. I’m happy to have this one available in...
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