Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Mar 29th, 2008
Now that I have wiped the tears from my eyes, I can share this with you: The tag line for John McCain’s first general election TV ad: “John McCain: The American president Americans have been waiting for.” Late Update: TPM Reader SW feels the patriotism: There’s not enough “America” in his ad. I’m not sure [...]
Posted in General on Mar 24th, 2008
Plone Sympoisum East 2008 is barely over, but 26 session videos are already up on Plone.tv! I’m watching fellow Seattleite Cris Ewing from University of Washington give his bravura talk about the big, successful rollout of Plone to the 700-person UW Radiology Department.  It’s a fantastic case study that would be of interest to anyone in [...]
Posted in General on Mar 24th, 2008
Plone Symposium East 2008 Videos 26 videos of talks from Plone Symposium 2008! (tags: plone video plonesymposium2008)
Posted in General on Mar 22nd, 2008
Cyber Attacks Target Pro-Tibet NGOs Activists need to be more security-conscious! (tags: activism nptech security) [...]
Posted in General on Mar 22nd, 2008
A little tip: when you put too much widget-crap on your blog, nobody can read your blog posts, because your pages take forever to load. Worse, your pages may never load if one of the many widgets can’t load up. Tags: nptech, blogging, webdesign
Posted in General on Mar 20th, 2008
Walking Like a Duck Great presentation about why Zope’s adapter pattern is way, way better than subclassing and monkeypatching. Even I now understand. (tags: presentations python software) [...]
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2008
[18:00] I’m liveblogging from the event ONE/Northwest is hosting tonight, titled “Political Campaigns and Technology.” We’ve got about 50 people in our office here in Seattle, gathered together for a fast-paced peer-to-peer learning session in which we’re going to explore the various ways that political campaigns are using technology to build and sustain relationships, [...]
Posted in General on Mar 18th, 2008
The Anatomy of a Consulting Firm > Strategy article by David Maister (tags: consulting articles)
Posted in General on Mar 16th, 2008
Thanks to the WebLion team at Penn State University for releasing CSSManager. CSSManager is an add-on Product for Plone that lets you customize the site logo and various properties of your theme like colors, fonts, etc. through a simple, user-friendly web interface. No CSS knowledge is required, nor any mucking about in the ZMI. Plone “approachability” [...]
Posted in General on Mar 16th, 2008
Google Ad Manager free service that lets you sell your own ads and mix in AdSense ads, too. likely a very attrctive competitor to OpenAds at the low end [...]
Posted in General on Mar 12th, 2008
What’s the most exciting feature of Plone 3, according to students in Joel Burton’s “Plone Bootcamps” class this week? Content rules, I was surprised to learn. Discuss.
Posted in General on Mar 12th, 2008
Google Analytics: How do I track link exits? useful for tracking outbound exist on your site, not just banner ads (tags: analytics statistics)
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
My amazing colleagues here at ONE/Northwest just launched Sightline Daily, a project we’ve been working on for the past few months for our downstairs neighbors at Sightline Institute. (Big props to our friends at Web Collective, too, who contributed a bunch of heavy behind-the-scenes technical lifting, including some last-minute bug fixing!) Sightline Daily covers sustainability news [...]
Posted in General on Mar 7th, 2008
Sightline Daily Sustainability news for the Northwest — just relaunched with Plone! (tags: plone-site environment onenorthwest)
Posted in General on Mar 6th, 2008
ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability USA (tags: environment government ngo plone-site) Google Contacts API released [...]
Posted in General on Mar 5th, 2008
Rails is the best thing that ever happened to Python | Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming (tags: python ruby programming rubyonrails) [...]
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2008
Your Exchange Server 2003 computer may stop responding after a MAPI client opens more than the default value of certain server objects (tags: exchange troubleshoooting)
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2008
The SlimDevices team made a final release of SqueezeCenter 7 today. SqueezeCenter (formerly SlimServer) is the open-source music library/player at the heart of the amazing Squeezebox digital music player. SqueezeCenter 7 is a massive, game-changing improvement on the old SlimServer software, which was no slouch. The biggest change is a seriously overhauled user interface, which takes [...]
Posted in General on Mar 2nd, 2008
Welcome — African Books Collective plone site using getpaid for ecommerce (tags: getpaid plone-site)