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Tag Archives: programming
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. cpsrenewal.ca by Nick Charney: Mapping Internal Policy to the Hype Cycle – "I've been thinking a lot this week about how organizations issue policies to govern the use of new … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, android, app, Apple, basic, BBC, bbcmicro, books, charney, Computing, dart, development, education, gartner, hype, innovation, mit, mobile, policy, programming, publishing, webapp, webdev
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Hackers for government (and a dollop of open source)
A lovely story of sharing, reusing and creative hacking in government today. There’s a whole post to be written on hacker culture and why government needs people who are able to program computers on the payroll. You just can’t outsource … Continue reading
Posted in open source
Tagged coding, government, hackers, open source, programming, Software
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Bookmarks for April 30th through May 14th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Should the Public Sector pay for Content Management Systems? « Carl’s Notepad – [with open source] "You will still need to consider the integration aspects but open source products are … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, adoption, amazon, aws, casestudies, cloud, cloudcomputing, cms, collaboration, community, complexity, crm, css, css3, design, development, devon, discussion, drupal, e2.0, ecm, enterprise, enterprise2.0, enterprisearchitecture, examples, featurecreep, future, government2.0, governmentit, headshift, html, ict, internet, it, joomla, localgovernment, localgovweb, microsoft, opendata, opensocitm, opensource, pewinternet, plugin, productivity, programming, publishing, redmonk, report, research, ruby, saas, salesforce, semantic, semanticweb, sharepoint, socialmedia, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, socitm, Software, strategy, technology, TimBernersLee, tool, usa, web, web2.0, webdesign, wiki, wikis, wordpress
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Bookmarks for March 21st through March 29th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Would Anyone Ever Say that Open Government Isn’t Great? – "Let’s not demonize good old e-government and let’s not overhype open government or government 2.0. Because what they have both … Continue reading
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