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11.09.08Daily Kos Reports on Its Tech InfrastuctureDaily Kos unveiled their new server infrastructure just recently: Hardware is part of the solution, Bingham says. "To handle the traffic better, we moved to a cluster of six quad core Xeons with 8GB RAM for webheads that all boot off a central NFS (Network File System) root, with the capability of adding more webheads as needed," he said. Daily Kos also added two 16GB eight-core Xeons and a 6×73GB RAID-10 array for database files running a MySQL master/slave setup [...] Many database-driven sites facing scalability challenges have looked to the distributed caching system memcached, which helps speed dynamic web applications. Bingham ...
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07.02.07An Interview with Shaun Sullivan, Blackbaud’s CTO, Part 1 of 2Gosh, I love writing about Infinity -- it always gives me an excuse to play this audio clip! [audio:8.mp3] So during the hottest part of the heat wave in New York City last week, in my room, with its lack of an A/C, I listened to Shaun Sullivan, Blackbaud's CTO, outline his plan of attack for the next year. This interview is in two parts because Mr. Sullivan just blasted me with a firehose of details and information, all of it juicy and too long to present in one blog posting. Suffice it to say, that you could sense that Blackbaud ...
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01.28.07Check out my new Leaderboard!I've decided to write down my technology recommendations that nonprofits with revenue ranging from $0 to $10 million can use. Some of these technologies scale to nonprofits that are even larger. These are part and parcel of a "best of breed" approach. What's unique about the application stack listed on the leaderboard is that all of these technologies are pretty open (except for the MS Office suite) and that they require a very small investment in terms of capital dollars. I'm not picking any Web 2.0 technologies yet for this stack. However, this software stack should allow a nonprofit to have ...
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12.04.06Wild Apricot – Social Entrepreneur Skypecast 2Our Skypecast this time is with Dmitry Buterin of Wild Apricot . He's got a lot of interesting opinions about the nonprofit software sector. It's definitely worth listening to. If anything, his experience with Google Ads is a great lesson in getting mindshare for your product. Also, he's aiming at a niche that's very large and very underserved in our sector, the mom-and-pop nonprofit. Those of you who don't understand his discussion of agile methodology should check out the Wikipedia article about it. As a former software developer myself, I wish this methodology had come out in the 1990s when we ...
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08.08.06How “open” is open when judging software?OK, so I'm doing an internal review on CMS solutions for my non-profit. As part of the matrix, I have open source down as one of the rated criteria. How should I rate open source? Is it say twice as important as a fully-featured HTML editor or only half as important? Is it more important than say a great e-mail blaster component or less so? What about for the oft-mentioned open API? What I'm getting down to here is what weight should we assign to open source or open APIs? Are they complete show stoppers or just "nice to have" ...
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07.18.06Ever have to help people post pics on their web sites?And you ended up having to teach them about resizing photos as well as the concept of screen vs. print resolution AND proportional sizing? I suggest you send them straight to snipshot.com. It's a web-based photo editor that's simple enough that you can use it to teach people how to properly edit their photos in a non-destructive manner. It still needs a bit of work such as the ability to type in auto-constrained pixel sizes that maintain the aspect ratio of a picture but it's still far better than having to ask people to buy Photoshop or install Gimp just to ...
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05.13.06Google Trends and OSS CMS TrendsSo Google's version of Alexa's tracking software is now out. It's called Google Trends. It's a tool that tracks an unspecified subset of all the searches for a particular set of search terms. Unfortunately, you're going to have to rely on the way people search for CMSes as a way of creating your data set for the trends chart that Google Trends creates. The upshot of all this is that it's very difficult to track items such as Ruby (the programming language not the gem) and Mambo (the CMS and not the music). I've created an interesting comparison of the ...
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04.10.06OSS CMS Jobs ReportAs another in the ongoing series on OSS CMS technologies, I'm posting a graph I created at indeed that contains the frequency of job listings that list a particular OSS CMS. I chose Plone, Drupal, Joomla, Typo3 and CiviCRM as technologies to track. It's almost impossible to track mambo developers this way because mambo jobs may be also for mambo instructors so I left only Joomla! developers in the graph. I don't know how exactly to interpret these results. Much of it seems cyclical or tied to particular directives. What is interesting to me once again, is the high rate of ...
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04.10.06Plone strikes a blow for OSS CMS transparency!Last week, I sent out an e-mail to multiple OSS CMS sites asking the sites to reveal information on how many site visitors they receive. This is so that people can get an accurate gauge of interest in their technology. The only site that responded was plone.org. Plone's marketing person, Paul Everitt, just gave me a URL that details all the web stats for plone.org. I haven't done any kind of analysis yet but go ahead and take a look at: http://stats.plone.org/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=squid. Their quick response and Plone's contact list are good signs that Plone is pretty receptive to the need for ...
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04.02.06Hail to the Chairman, Joel Burton responds… and so do IThose of you on the NOSI e-mail list are probably aware of the comments I've made concerning OSS CMSes. I made the following comment a couple days ago on the list talking about the OSS CMS Beauty Contest. I'm taking the time to answer here so that I don't hog the list with my responses which tend to be fairly long. I'm really enjoying the back-and-forth despite the two flames I've received because I'm really learning more about how OSS consultants think than the merits of the case they're arguing (and most of the time, very poorly I might add ...
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