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 [...]
In my grousing about the lack of easy CSV parsing in Apex, I began to feel like Paul Rudd’s character in Web Hot American Summer. Usually it’s not something you would need to do in SalesForce – the Import Wizard or Data Loader are built to do this easily for one table at a time. [...]
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 [...]
