Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
via nvie.com. Great post on real-world branching conventions for Git, including when to create branches for development, and when to merge them. The comments have some great tips about when to use...
June, 23 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Keynote on iPad is way more interesting than it’s desktop counterpart. I honestly don’t know how to add animations on keynote for Mac OS. But it’s a breeze to do on the iPad. And while I know how to add images and shapes on keynote on the Mac, it’s just much more fun and inspiring to do it on keynote for iPad. Some say the iPad is best suited for content consumption and not content creation. I believe it’s partially true because many app developers haven’t changed their perspective for a touch interface. And...
June, 12 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
The goal of all of this has been to harness the excitement of development for good, but also to go beyond the contests — to build communities of practice. Peter calls these innovator networks. If we’re lucky, these may grow into innovation marketplaces that just might be self-sustaining. That’s the hope, anyway. Meanwhile, it’s lots of experimentation. One prominent experiment, sponsored by Corbett’s iStrategy Labs, is this month’s Digital Capital Week (DCWeek). A week-long series of workshops, projects and parties...
June, 8 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
When you do a rebase, it saves all commits in the current branch that are not available in the upstream branch to a staging area, and reset the current branch to upstream branch. Then those saved commits would be reapplied on top of the current branch, one by one. With this process, it ensures my newest changes would remain as the newest. The new workflow with rebasing would be: 1 git pull origin master 2 git checkout -b new-feature-branch 3 git status 4 git commit -am "commit message" 5 6 ...
June, 5 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
No more firewall problems using GitHub. Yay! Git supports a new, much more efficient HTTP based transport as of version 1.6.6. Well, now GitHub supports that new protocol as well. From now on, if you clone a repository over the http:// url and you are using a Git client version 1.6.6 or greater, Git will automatically use the newer, better transport mechanism. Even more amazing, however, is that you can now push over that protocol and clone private repositories as well. If you access a private repository...
May, 3 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
I love my phone. Not so much for the phone part, but for the little computer in there that connects me to the world, no matter where I am. The phone has our calendars, our mail -- and, increasingly, our volunteer opportunities. It's the day timer of our times. But better than a day timer, the phone offers discovery, too. Lots of nonprofits and individuals are at work to make this discovery include nonprofits and volunteering. Here are a few of our favorite apps for good -- apps that connect people to nonprofits...
May, 3 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
And like media, the most important measurement for software today is the number of engaged users. The more engaged users a piece of software has, the more impactful it can be. Fred Wilson, via avc.com
April, 15 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Jeremy Toeman has a fantastic analysis of the Twitter experience for new users. Lots of lessons here for Twitter -- and for anyone putting together a new user experience. Twitter needs to thoroughly overhaul the new user experience. Forget “suggested users” and focus on “suggested uses.” via livedigitally.com
January, 28 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Fabien Agranier wrote: "1) You can't have top and bottom menu in web apps !!!!! 2) You can't get rid of the safari bottom menu 3) You have to use a trick to hide the url bar and it's really not pretty (bar is showed during page loadings)" These are all incorrect. Apps written using HTML5 can be indistinguishable from native applications on the iPhone in all respects except the installation and update process. Examples: http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/02/ibis-reader-and-bookserver/ http://mrgan.com/gb/ http...
November, 23 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Startup thinking for the social sector. Code to help nonprofits do the social web. Plus photography.
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