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Code, Camera, Action blog - 13

Notes from the cloud by Eric Johnson

Building Git on Centos 5

So you want to use Git the latest hotness in distributed version control. It builds easily using the instructions in the INSTALL file.

Post: The Net for a Nonprofit

Last spring I attended the NetSquared conference, a competition for nonprofits using the net. The projects were fabulous, with MapLight winning first prize. As part of each project’s pitch, we heard what these organizations, some fledgling, some established, needed.

Post: Helping Ghana without Reinventing the Wheel

A friend’s client wanted to help Ghana. Microlending seemed to be a good way to do it. The client would collect money in the US, and fund small loans to farmers and entrepreneurs in Ghana. The web might even make the first half of this — collecting money and telling the stories of who was helped — easy.

Time Machine Backups over WiFi

Leopard does not (yet?) backup to a disk attached to an Airport base station, to lots of people’s concern. But OS X version 10.5.1 will backup over the network – to another Mac. It works just fine over wired or wifi networks, so it works for MacBooks.