Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2008
Bungee Connect :: Platform-as-a-Service Bungee Connect is a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service for the development and delivery of highly interactive web applications that integrate multiple web services and data bases. (tags: [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2008
My dear friend Yoram Bauman, aka the world’s only stand-up economist, is doing two special shows here in Seattle in a couple of weeks (May 11 & 12) to benefit our downstairs neighbors at Sightline Institute. You can buy tickets here. Yoram writes: Your headliner for these shows is Robert Dubac, an LA-based performer who is [...]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2008
My amazing colleague Veda Williams has been leading a team of Plone community members on an ongoing “sprint” to create more and better canned visual themes for Plone. Along the way, they’ve generated a lot of ideas about best practices for themeing Plone, and some ideas to make the process even easier and more automated by [...]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2008
Right-Justified Navigation Menus Impede Scannability Results from eye-tracking studies confirm common sense. (tags: webdesign) [...]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2008
Real People Don’t Have Time for Social Media – ReadWriteWeb ironic that i’m tagging this (tags: nptech social-networking)
Posted in General on Apr 23rd, 2008
Be Good A great essay by VC Paul Graham about how businesses should be more like nonprofits (!) (tags: business essays nonprofits) [...]
Posted in General on Apr 22nd, 2008
“The Wired Wealthy” Interesting online fundraising report from convio (tags: research online-fundraising online-advocacy) New [...]
Posted in General on Apr 21st, 2008
Radio Free Asia now powered by Plone — a massive, multilingual, multimedia site. (tags: plone-site nonprofit)
Posted in General on Apr 18th, 2008
Thanks to PFGCaptchaField by 4Teamwork, it’s now easy to stick basic CAPTCHAs into Plone forms that you’re creating with PloneFormGen. It’s a nice bit of work that takes advantge of Jarn’s underlying collective.captcha product. What I especially like about it is that it makes it possible for non-technical end-users to quickly build forms that can’t [...]
It’s nice to be back online from our new house, even if it is with borrowed wifi until Qwest gets our DSL hooked up. Needs a little TLC (and a massive kitchen remodel), but that’s why we’re here. Plenty of room for guests, though. Photos of the view will have to wait for a sunny day, [...]
Posted in General on Apr 17th, 2008
Alan Runyan, Toby Roberts and the rest of the crew at Enfold are putting on what promises to be another fantastic Plone Sympoisum in New Orleans. They’ve just issued the call for presentations: We are now ready for presentation submissions for the Plone Symposium. The Plone Symposium is heavily focused on technical useful tidbits and best practices [...]
Posted in General on Apr 16th, 2008
Configuring_VoIP_for_SonicOS_Standard.pdf (application/pdf Object) (tags: voip phones sonicwall)
Posted in General on Apr 15th, 2008
How do I Install Telephone Wiring? (tags: phone house) Doing your own telephone wiring [...]
Posted in General on Apr 10th, 2008
Plone Conference 2008 is going to be in Washington, DC – October 8-10. See you all there! Tags: plone
Posted in General on Apr 9th, 2008
Trixbox without tears slightly out of date, but very user-friendly! (tags: asterisk trixbox documentation telephony voip)
Posted in General on Apr 7th, 2008
FreePBX recommended by richard amerman. (tags: asterisk phone-systems) trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based PBX Phone [...]
Posted in General on Apr 4th, 2008
A List Apart: Articles: Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation (tags: email obfuscation javascript)
Posted in General on Apr 1st, 2008
THE POLAR BEAR CONSERVANCY (tags: enviroment global-warming)