Ten days ago, I threw out this nugget in "Protecting your Competitive Advantages in Open Source": For example, the dotProject Files Module allows you to attach Files to any Project – or even Task – within the system. By design, it stores all files on the local filesystem and performs some simple versioning. But what […]
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to use this space one day each week to go back to basics because – unfortunately – I discovered that many people don't have these basics. A few weeks ago when I was digging up information on IBM's various PHP efforts, I found a great article "Five commmon […]
Sorry for bringing this meme up but I couldn't think of a better way to describe the idiocy of the situation around PromoterForce detailed in the post "The Dangers of Moonlighting". "I was recently “let go” from my job of three years for violating my employee agreement for allegedy working on a side business and […]
Disclaimer: I have quite a few disclaimers this time around… First of all, I happen to know one of the authors – Eli White. We've run into each other at a number of conferences, had a few beers together, and I've even been over to his house to play cards. I happen to like the […]
There's no better way to start your day than with a new dotProject release: dotProject 2.1 RC 2 is now available for download. This includes a number of major security fixes over and above rc1. For full details please see the Status page at Status Information. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version […]
One of the biggest benefits of Open Source Software is the fact that you can customize it completely towards your needs and business processes. Unfortunately, it also tends to be one of the biggest drawbacks. Yes, you can customize, tune, and generally make it fit exactly what you're looking for, but now you've taken a […]
The days leading up to a product/system release is always an exciting time. For organized teams, it's a tightly controlled process where useful bug reports roll in from the QA team and beta testers while a small strike force of the best team members from each functional area track down the root of the problem […]
Over the weekend, Robert Scoble pointed out all the technology that Steve Jobs has killed off over the years and asked a simple question: Which features are you getting rid of to make your product/service/store/business simpler? As I've pondered this over the last few days, I've been looking at the various products, systems, and code […]