All Things Open Source

Certainly a good idea, we’ve been needing somethin…

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:40:07 +0000

Certainly a good idea, we’ve been needing something like this for a while, are there easy ways for us to forward stories to you?

I’d also like you to post a little more information about yourselves and what your ties are, distro/DE of choice, etc – I worry that it’s just another blog with “spin”, and would like to know how much spin

Matt, the answer to your 2nd question is yes. ;-)…

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:40:04 +0000

Matt, the answer to your 2nd question is yes.

Savio

Awesome! I presume you’ll also be doing a proprie…

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:40:01 +0000

Awesome! I presume you’ll also be doing a proprietary software fact check? Or is it assumed that the proprietary world tells the truth while open source advocates are hopelessly biased?

Precisely because this blog deals with issues of i…

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:39:57 +0000

Precisely because this blog deals with issues of interest to the open source community, I think it would be important to allows users to comment using an OpenID. This is a new feature that Blogger provides, but it must be enabed by the blog owner, as described here.

Another comment is that I think it is also important, in the name of transparency, to give the authorship of the posts. Afterall, you don’t allow anonymous comments, so why allow anonymous posts? Transparency is important for a project like this, I believe, and it would be even more interesting if multiple fact checkers collaborated in the effort, eventually — under a moderator/editor, perhaps.

Introducing Application Decision Spectrums

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:39:33 +0000

Application leaders will have to deal with four major decision spectrums aligned to the trends in open-source software, consumerization, cloud computing and design thinking. This is a simple approach to establishing guidelines that increase agility.

BitNami Trac Stack 0.11.6-1

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:39:06 +0000

About BitNami Trac Stack
An easy to use installer for Trac, which is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management.The project’s mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.

It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities. Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all project events in order, making the acquisition of an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy.

Episode 85 – StackOverflow

Admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:39:00 +0000

Joel and Jeff discuss the pursuit of venture capital, why Joel is ending his blog, and the hidden power of Google's web spider.

Microsoft to Deliver Open Source Analytics Software for Silverlight

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:59:57 +0000

At Microsoft’s upcoming MIX10 conference, which starts on Monday of next week, the company plans to discuss Internet Explorer 9, its Windows Phone 7 initiatives, and an open source analytics framework …

Why Chrome OS Will Be Your Extra Operating System

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:59:54 +0000

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking in Abu Dhabi this week, confirmed that the Chrome OS operating system is on track for the second half of this year.

4 Resources For Keeping Open Source Efforts Legal

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:59:52 +0000

You can never be too careful about the law if you’re working in the open source world. As open source grows, so do the legal wrangles surrounding projects, licenses, and more.