I’m going to skip over most of the hoopla in the last month regarding Google Wave. I tried it, and I thought it was very neat. The reason I thought it was neat gets back to my roots as a relational database developer. Much of the power and possibility of these tools can be boiled [...]
I’ve been working with Social Actions data for a while, and I think I may finally have something small and perhaps useful. Social Actions data is comprised of volunteer and donation opportunities (actions) that people around the web are searching for, and, occasionally, clicking on. I ran an analysis of the hits vs. the length [...]
I heard about SamaSource at South by South West from @whiteafrican, @tmsruge, and some others at the Appfrica panel. Or, perhaps one of them mentioned it to me at Convio’s #nptech after party….? Either way, SamaSource is an organization which aims to connect marginalized people with outsourced technical work. I’ve been working with developers and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
