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Posted by James Stewart 2 days ago
An update to David Mercer’s now two year old Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites, this version has been updated for the CMS’ latest revision and guides the user through from setting up a development environment and installing drupal through to building custom themes and deploying a fully built site.
The book is designed [...]
Posted by James Stewart 7 days ago
Four years ago, give or take, a small group keen to see how their individual steps towards a more generous way of living added up, came up with the idea of A Year Of Living Generously. Through the web a group of people could signal their commitment to various steps that might help their communities [...]
Posted by James Stewart 28 days ago
One of the numerous projects I’ve been juggling over the past few months has been a redesign of the Greenbelt Festival website. That redesign went live late last night.
Working from Wilf’s designs I initially built new HTML and CSS templates and began to establish some rules for how we’d handle the new image management requirements [...]
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cms,
css,
greenbelt,
html,
jquery,
paul_northup,
php,
relaunch,
rspec,
wilf_whitty
Posted by James Stewart 29 days ago
While my live blogging efforts focussed on the more formal sessions at ecampaigning forum, most of the event’s time and content was spent in groups following the Open Space methodology. The gatherings for people to suggest sessions were instructive in themselves as they gave considerable hints as to the key concerns of ecampaigning practitioners.
How to [...]
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civicactions,
drupal,
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nptech,
open_space,
openstreetmap,
peak_attention,
summits,
theyworkforyou,
twitter
Posted by James Stewart 30 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with them [...]
Posted by James Stewart 30 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with them [...]
Posted by James Stewart 30 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with them [...]
Posted by James Stewart 30 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with them [...]
Posted by James Stewart 31 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with them [...]
Posted by James Stewart 31 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with [...]
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ecf,
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fairtrade_woman,
karina_brisby,
mashups,
netsquared,
nptech,
oxfam
Posted by James Stewart 31 days ago
For the next couple of days I’m at the ecampaigning forum in Oxford and am going to attempt to live blog the main sessions as far as possible. These notes are largely unedited, so they’re likely to be a bit sketchy. For context, feel free to post a comment and I’ll catch up with them [...]
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notes,
avaaz,
ben_brandzel,
campaigning,
ecampaigning_forum,
ecf,
ecf08,
mobilisation,
moveon,
nptech,
organising
Posted by James Stewart 34 days ago
Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is primarily a book about the presentation of reports. Having gone in expecting a mixture of presentation and production techniques I was a little surprised to find that the vast majority of the reader’s time is spent looking at various GUI and graphing toolkits, export to MS Office and [...]
Posted by James Stewart 35 days ago
Report backs freer use of data | Technology | The Guardian
"work is under way on a government "information incubator" to encourage experiments with "mashups" and other innovative uses of government data"
(tags: forblog freedata government uk web2.0)
Using SimpleDB and Rails in No Time with ActiveResource
(tags: activeresource amazon databases simpledb thecloud)
Should I be worried about piracy? | [...]
Posted by James Stewart 40 days ago
A few months back I posted a series of entries about the process of producing HTML emails. Those posts generated a number of comments and emails, including some from Christopher White who has been working with the TamTam library in TextMate to clean up his workflow. He offered me this article which I present below. [...]
Posted by James Stewart 44 days ago
For many the idea of bringing design patterns to ruby is a terrifying one. Having taken refuge from over-engineered java projects (or for that matter, attempts to apply java engineering approaches to a somewhat dynamic language like PHP) the baggage that often goes along with design patterns isn’t what a recent convert is looking for. [...]
Posted by James Stewart 45 days ago
Working with a number of non-profits I frequently find myself tasked with extending or upgrading drupal. Each new version of drupal has been a significant step forward and I’m usually keen to get up to date but there’s the small matter of the suite of modules most sites use that need to catch up with [...]
Posted by James Stewart 64 days ago
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Not really about MySpace, more about social networking sites in general. A good set of quotes on the value/effects of social networking site usage.
(tags: freakonomics myspace socialnetworking sociology)
Net, Blogs and Rock’n'Roll: Recommender systems meet festivals
Last.FM will look at your [...]
Posted by James Stewart 66 days ago
Yesterday, Matt Patterson and I moved into the office space we’re going to be sharing. In London’s fashionable Hoxton, right next door to a startup we like a lot, it’s a good place to be. We currently have space for one more full-timer to share the office with us, so let us know if you’re [...]
Posted by James Stewart 69 days ago
Economizing can be penny-wise and pound foolish
"Pick up the source code for a program and three highlighter markers, one green, one yellow, and one red." leading into a good discussion of separating problem and infrastructure.
(tags: design designpatterns domaindrivedesign refactoring)
the ryan king ?? Introducing Conveyor
"One way of describing it is as a ???distributed, rewindable, virtual queue [...]
Posted by James Stewart 76 days ago
Developing OAuth clients in Ruby
Nice step-by-step tutorial
(tags: oauth ruby)
Matt Legend Gemmell ??? MGTwitterEngine - Twitter from Cocoa
"MGTwitterEngine is a Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API."
(tags: api cocoa twitter)
foi.mysociety.org
MySociety’s new Freedom of Information site is now in "public alpha"
(tags: freedomofinformation mysociety nptech web4change)
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