January 29, 2012
Affinity BridgeJanuary 24, 2012
As we've mentioned a number of times on this blog, CivicActions uses the Scrum framework. To keep our skills up to date and to learn from the experiences of others we try to participate in the Scrum and Agile communities.
Last night at...
January 20, 2012
As mentioned in the previous post, the recently announced Blackbaud acquisition of Convio - two giants in the closed-source world that provide web services primarily for non-profits - caused a stir not only in the...
January 19, 2012
January 15, 2012
[pic from Christian Hellman's “Reclaiming HTML5” talk at SuperVan JS mini con]
January 13, 2012
At the end of 2009 when the Obama Administration came out with the Open Government Directive (which I wrote about...
One of the great things about living in Vancouver is the abundance of tech talent.
January 9, 2012
Why do so many organizations waste the opportunity to hook their email subscribers with the first line of the email message? I hadn't really noticed this sooner because of the way I consumed email: through a series of complicated email aliases and gmail filters. Honestly, in Gmail, I was basically ignoring most...
January 2, 2012
[Left: logo of the Chaos Computer Club]December 26, 2011
Earlier this year I was tasked with migrating a 60K contact Kintera database to CiviCRM. To make matters more "interesting", the client also had a home-grown...