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 [...]
This is very obvious now, but wasn’t when I spent an hour searching today. If you’re using SVN from the command line, against a server requiring SSL, your URL will look something like this: svn co svn+ssh://svn.domain.com/repository You can specify the username and password like this: svn co svn+ssh://svn.domain.com/repository –username user –password pass But, running [...]
See Part 1 if you need some background. This part is more for web nerds, or people who aren’t afraid of learning some of our arcane rituals and glyphs. I’m going to assume you’re familiar with and have used REST APIs in the past. If not, I’m going to make a wild stab at an [...]
All For Good launched very recently as an aggregator of service opportunities within the United States. Earlier this spring I got involved with Social Actions, which is an aggregator of worldwide service and micro-loan opportunities. Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or [...]
NTC was, for me, a catharsis. It validated my decision, a bit more than a year ago, to commit myself to the risk and reward of entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector. The feeling was akin to the first few weeks on the ‘engineering floor’ of my freshman dormatory: A discovery that those around me are [...]
