Archive for 2009

Social Actions Analytics

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on September 10th, 2009 3 Comments

Social Actions recently started releasing their corpus of volunteer, donation, and other opportunities (social actions) as a nightly dump.  I think that’s super!  I’ve started setting up some analytics for the data, as I think there is a lot of wisdom and science to be found within.  The eventual goal is to do some fancy [...]

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Management of the Absurd

Life on September 8th, 2009 No Comments

I recently read two fantastic books: “Management of the Absurd” by Richard Farson and “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely. Both are research-supported, readable takes on the fascinating phenomenons of people and organizations. I won’t tell you exactly what the lessons are because I’m sure to misstate something and they’re too good and too short for [...]

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CSS: The User’s Stumbling Block

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on August 16th, 2009 No Comments

I’ve set up a few clients on Joomla or WordPress – somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen. Recently, something struck me as a barrier to truly handing the site over to them: Styles For web developers, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets, a befogged acronym) is wonderful. It lifts lowly, cumbersome HTML into a state [...]

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Dealing with Deadbeats

Life on August 4th, 2009 1 Comment

I must be some kind of lucky, because Prelude Interactive seems to have far fewer issues with overdue or underpaid invoices than other firms. In eight years of intermittent freelancing, as well as more than a year of Prelude, I’ve only had two instances when a client couldn’t pay. These are their stories. The first [...]

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SalesForce: Using jQuery and Prototype

Nerding, SalesForce on July 25th, 2009 No Comments

Somewhere in the Spring or Summer 09′ Updates of SalesForce, we started seeing Javascript errors within SalesForce’s Prototype code, such as: element.className is undefined element.hasClassName is undefined element.dispatchEvent is undefined Well, it turns out that jQuery and Prototype both overload some of the same things in the environment, so all you need to do is [...]

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