Jon Stahl’s Journal

We’re swamped with demand for database consulting work.  So much so that we’ve decided to expand the team here at ONE/Northwest.  My colleague Steve Andersen, our Database Program Manager, has the scoop: I’m not so much looking for someone to work for me, but with me. I want these kinds of skills to help us build […]

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A big love bomb to Gunner, Heather, Tim and the hundred-odd other fellow nonprofit software developers who made last week’s Nonprofit Software Dev Summit a fantastic experience in slightly nontraditional conferencing.Among the highlights for me were: The unexpected appearance of dear nonprofit tech colleagues such as Amanda Hickman, Laura Quinn, Teresa Crawford — in addition to […]

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kate quinn organics :: 100% organic cotton clothes for baby, kids, and women seattle-based! (tags: gifts)

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I don’t usually find a huge amount worthy of remembering in the business section. But in a long New York Times magazine story about Toyota’s corporate culture and business success, the following paragraph jumped out at me: Toyota is as much a philosophy as a business, a patchwork of traditions, apothegms and precepts that don’t translate […]

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Last summer, I did a quick count of the number of known security vulnerabilities in common open-source CMS products, and their underlying software stacks. The results were rather eye-opening. I thought it might be time for an refresh. Once again, my protocol was simple: I searched the MITRE CVE list of known vulnerabilities and […]

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CT4AEfwadv clicktools advanced webinar (tags: salesforce clicktools) ReUsable Web Components with Python and Future […]

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Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Amazon S3 Library for REST in Python python library for amazon s3 storage (tags: python backup webservices s3 amazon) […]

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Tate Hausman of dotOrganize, whom I am really looking forward to meeting in person next week in San Francisco, breaks out his reality spoon gives the nonprofit technology pot a good ol’ stirring. In his article “The Myth of the Bleeding Edge“, Tate draws on the results of dotOrganize’s ground-breaking research into the real-world technology needs […]

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One of the best things about working at ONE/Northwest is the fact that I get to sit across the room from brilliant people like Steve Andersen. Over the past few months, Steve has been doing some amazing work helping our small- to mid-sized environmental organization partners build effective relationship management systems. One of the deep […]

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Social-Networking Sites Open Up Social networking sites are starting to release open APIs to allow third-party software to integrate. The tide continues to roll in. (tags: nptech integration […]

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Matt Stoller lets ExxonMobil VP Ken Cohen have it: The politics of ExxonMobil are interesting, though expected. Cohen is not only the VP of Public Affairs, but the head of ExxonMobil’s PAC, and the head of the ExxonMobil Foundation that distributes charitable grants. That’s a lot of hats for a PR guy. I […]

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Neutered Nodes: CCK’s Dark Secret | Nick Lewis: The Blog Why Drupal’s CCK (through-the-web database schema editing) doesn’t really work that well. No big mystery: through-the-web development is really not that good of an idea. […]

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The staff at ONE/Northwest also thought of this in about 1997, but we lacked the skill/will to implement: LinuxWorld: And one of the internal commands at SGI was the burrito command. Allison: Oh, I vaguely remember that — yes, yes. You could specify your burrito. LinuxWorld: You’d type in burrito, and depending on either the command line options you supplied or […]

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NTEN recently published a solid little paper by Michelle Murrain and Katrin Verclas that sums up the state of open APIs in the nonprofit CRM sector.  It’s an important read if you believe in the importance of integrating tools.There’s a lot of good stuff in this short paper, and I particularly appreciate that they make […]

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Yahoo’s new “Pipes” service is going to enable some really cool RSS remixing, I think.The blogerati are agog.  I am usually skeptical about these kinds of things, but what I think is most intriguing about Pipes is that it is not so much consumer-focused as about providing powerful, easy-to-use tools for building web services. Very […]

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Jason Clark and Victor d’Allant just relaunched SocialEdge.org, now proudly powered by Plone. They’ve got an active community of social entrepreneurs blogging, wiki-ing and discussing away. It’s really nice to see Plone getting used in high-profile nonprofit collaborative/community sites. Migrating an active community site to a new platform is no small undertaking, as Jason attests. […]

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January 2007 :: Do Email Silences Matter? yes, they do. (tags: email advocacy research email-newsletters)

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Adobe - CSS Advisor beta a public forum devoted to solving CSS compatibility issues (tags: css reference webdesign tips)

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Ryan Ozimek’s piece “Islands and Bridges, the building has begun” is a great hallelujah to the power and importance of integration via open APIs.  It’s clear that PICnet and ONE/Northwest are drinking form the same cup, when Ryan writes: The power of open source, combined with best of breed proprietary systems with open APIs give organizations the […]

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So says a new poll from the Energy Policy Institute, which found that 70% of Idahoans believe that global warming is being caused by human activity, and that 54% said Idaho should reduce greenhouse gas emissions.On the other hand, this means that 30% of Idahoans still don’t accept established scientific fact.  

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