It took me way too long to figure out how to get SalesForce to export schema information on an object. It seemed so tantalizingly easy – the salesforce.schema file is right there in the IDE but it’s a placeholder for a dynamically updated widget…that won’t export the XML it clearly contains. So, I learned about [...]
This past month has been the first time that I’ve been in a position to use contractors to help with projects. It has been an illuminating experience. First and most blindsided-by-hindsight, it’s harder than I thought it would be. It’s hard to give up control. It’s hard to write good specifications. It’s hard to align [...]
I finally figured out what that weird, high strung, can’t sleep, anxious feeling is that I’ve had for a few days. Stress! It’s been so long without deadlines and related technical problems beyond my control that I almost forgot what it was like. So much for blogging every day, but there’s a demo due tomorrow [...]
Since March I’ve been reading nonprofit blogs, going to meetings, scoping RSS feeds, reading Twitter messages, emails, and all kinds of stuff to educate myself. I think it’s working! Today I feel able to have a fluent conversation with someone who knows what they’re talking about in the nonprofit technology space, and only minorly expose [...]
I stumbled across an interesting RSS feed a week or two ago (thanks to Google Reader, not Stumble Upon, despite the fact that I stumbled upon it). It’s called Social Actions, and it might be trying to dragging the nonprofit/NGO/volunteer technology and data marketplace into the Web 2.0 era. In particular, I think the “Change [...]
