Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Aug 31st, 2008
perspctv my new election info-porn resource. nicely done. (tags: visualization elections) Plone Faceted Navigation demo a great demo of Pilot Systems' new "Faceted Navigation" add-on product for Plone (tags: plone semantic-web demo)
Posted in General on Aug 31st, 2008
I stayed up rather late last night early this morning finishing Scott Rosenberg’s book “Dreaming in Code.” If you’re involved with open-source software (or software at all), you really owe it to yourself to go get a copy. It’s a great look into the real-world challenges of writing software, told through the still-ongoing story of [...]
Posted in General on Aug 30th, 2008
Zamasing: Zope – dressed up! fancy (commercial, but inexpensive) ajax front-end for Zope 2's ZMI. interesting. (tags: zope software)
Posted in General on Aug 29th, 2008
A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites2 – It's JavaScript Time (tags: webdesign javascript) Canto Cumulus: Digital Asset Management: Images, Video, PPT, PDF, Layouts, & More… (tags: image-management software) Photo Management Software – ThumbsPlus Version 7 (tags: image-management software) ImageFolio – DAM Digital Asset Management Software Photo Sharing Software E-Commerce Photography Software (tags: image-management software)
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit (tags: ie8 webdesign)
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2008
A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance – Software Freedom Law Center (tags: open-source legal)
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2008
11 Tips for Using Online Video to Raise Money nice short article from see3 communications (tags: video nptech online-fundraising) Idealware: Processing Credit Cards another great overview article (tags: ecommerce online-fundraising) Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) – Bring Us Your Data server hosting just changed. (tags: hosting amazon s3) Reading Code: A [...]
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2008
Amazon has launched a public beta of Elastic Block Store, their long awaited persistent storage solution for their EC2 virtual hosting service.This is big news for the world of server hosting. I can’t wait to start transitioning some of our Plone servers over to EC2!
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2008
::WASP::Web Analytics Solution Profiler/Debugger:: helps debug analytics (tags: firefox webstats extensions analytics tools)
Posted in General on Aug 16th, 2008
Congratulations to Brian, Eric, Justin, Derek, Mike, Sherry, Alex and Bryan, collectively known as the Web Collective, on their first year in business. They’re an amazing group of people that I’m proud to call neighbors, colleagues and friends. In their first year out of the gate, they’ve done some impressive, innovative, pioneering work, both technically [...]
Posted in General on Aug 10th, 2008
Congrats to the WalkScore team for being featured in today’s Sunday New York Times! Founded in July 2007 by Mike Mathieu, the chairman of Front Seat Management in Seattle, WalkScore works with Google Maps and census data. Type in a street address on the site, and within seconds a list and map appear showing the [...]
Posted in General on Aug 8th, 2008
David Brooks: Now the global thought-leader is defined less by what culture he [sic!] enjoys than by the smartphone, social bookmarking site, social network and e-mail provider he uses to store and transmit it.
Posted in General on Aug 6th, 2008
Matt Bowen, Alex Clark and the amazing Plone Conference 2008 team have announced the 50+ talks that they’ve chosen for Plone Conference 2008. It’s a pretty amazing batch of talks, chosen from over 100 community-submitted proposals, and aimed at the full range of Plone experience levels. I got a chance to read all the proposals [...]
Posted in General on Aug 3rd, 2008
I’ve been checking out a pre-release version of ATImageEditor, a new Plone add-on product from Nathan Van Gheem of UW Oshkosh that lets you perform basic image editing tasks (crop, resize, etc.) directly inside of Plone. This is one of the more impressive, immediately-useful-to-real-people add-on products I’ve seen in a while. I’ve lost count of [...]
