Dennis P. Osorio's Blog

Creating WordPress Themes

Dposorio — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:47:49 +0000

There are many advantages to building a site on top of WordPress. RSS. Blogging. Calendaring. Simple editing done by authors rather than by a webmaster. Plugins like: ShareThis; Secure Form Mailer; Akismet; Wordpress Automatic Upgrade; and many others. For nonprofits, this means a site can be built and handed over to the organization to update. [...]

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Getting started with Salesforce

Dposorio — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:48:29 +0000

I am looking to implement a CRM for my workplace. Why are we bothering at all? Here are our goals (draft): to consolidate and make available contacts which are stored in each staffer’s Outlook to create a platform where membership information can be kept and used as needed membership information will track geography, issue identification, events attended, levels [...]

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KPDF dissing DRM, easy copying, pasting and saving a breeze

Dposorio — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:14:11 +0000

In an earlier post, I wrote about the joys of linux, specifically Ubuntu. Just a quick expansion here. KPDF has two features that are just so great. When using the “Select Tool” you can draw a rectangle over a selection and are given options for saving: text with copy to clipboard; image with copy to clipboard, [...]

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JQuery Cycle Plugin

Dposorio — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:24:36 +0000

Here’s a very cool slideshow framework that I found. It’s called JQuery Cycle Plugin. It offers so many cool effects! Don’t even think of Microsoft’s PowerPoint (hey, what’d I just tell you!) I’m working on something that incorporates it & I’m so jazzed. I can’t wait for its unveiling! It a plug-in to something called, JQuery. [...]

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Microsoft Software, Open Source Alternatives

Dposorio — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:44:11 +0000

You’re thinking about moving to Linux, or you recently have done so, and you’re wondering, “what is the Linux or open source alternative to xxx software I loved when I used Windows?” This has got to be one of the most common questions for Linux users. A lot of this software has dominated our ways of [...]

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Easy Breezy and Free Remote Access

Dposorio — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:20:32 +0000

While I was assisting a friend and client with the setup of his new email account, I was frustrated that I couldn’t simply access his computer remotely. “Whoa, hold on there”, he said. “Go to LogMeIn.com” I was skeptical because I was using a computer running Linux and sometimes weird web apps don’t play nicely with [...]

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Where I blog about blogging.

Dposorio — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:00:50 +0000

So, uh, I’m new to this whole blogging thing. But, I recently attended a “Blogger Summit” hosted by Center for Civic Policy. Below are some of the tips (style, soliciting comments, strategy) I picked up from folks who know a lot more about this than me. General Style tips: Short paragraphs - you’re not writing your magnum [...]

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Harassing the Powers that Be

Dposorio — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:15:38 +0000

At 1000 Friends of New Mexico, I experimented with two free solutions that should be of interest to folks wanting to initiate sign-on letters or petitions to legislators. CitizenSpeak (my favorite) Change.org (not bad, but with some downsides) First, we created a letter using CitizenSpeak that we wanted our members and supporters to sign on to. Then, it was [...]

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Spoof website

Dennis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:14:56 +0000

Here’s a great example of web activism. Upset with absurd attempts by the coal industry to clean up it’s image (rather than it’s smokestacks), the National Resource Defense Council created a spoof website. Who’s to say that you have to take corporate disinformation lying down? The original is found here: http://www.americaspower.org/ (boo! hiss!) The spoof is found [...]

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Why Ubuntu rules and Windows drools

Dennis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:49:27 +0000

Ubuntu, for those of you who may not know, is a flavor of Linux. There is no one single Linux, but a zillion varieties. Ubuntu is one of the most popular distributions (if not the most popular). For the fearful Windows users out there, let me tell you: it’s graphical, it has windows, and [...]

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