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Big Fish Donors (Part II)

Nonprofiteering, SalesForce on December 21st, 2009 No Comments

This is a follow up to a previous post asking what cause based orgs were doing to pursue HNW individuals and their bags of tax deductible money.

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At DreamForce a few weeks ago, I saw the demos for a few vendors who offer very comprehensive data of the social and professional relationships [...]

The first cause-based barcamp in Austin!

Austin #npocamp – Intro to Databases

Featured, Nerding, Nonprofiteering, Our Work, SalesForce on November 15th, 2009 1 Comment

In November of 2009 we participated in the #npocamp – a fantastic event in the unconference or barcamp tradition. We came prepared to talk about beginning database theory and came away with priceless knowledge and wisdom from all the sessions.

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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 call this magical function:
jQuery.noConflict();
Poof!  [...]

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NTC, Yeah You Know Me

Nerding, Nonprofiteering, SalesForce on April 30th, 2009 1 Comment

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 [...]

SalesForce and JSON

Nerding, SalesForce on March 5th, 2009 2 Comments

I found this open source library, and quickly realized that I needed some examples of how to use it.  Finding none, anywhere on the internet, I struggled for about two hours before learning that you can chain together class names to reach internal classes.
It wouldn’t be a SalesForce blog post without me bitching about something, [...]

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