Open Source in the Mainstream?
A long time ago I accepted the fact that – despite our little echo chamber online – the vast majority…
Tag: Open Source Software
The Open Source Community 101: Assessing Open Source
If you are involved any any Open Source project, you might have seen this article in the last couple weeks:…
The Open Souce Community 101: Two Facets
There seems to be a huge amount of discussion lately about the Open Source Community. Whether it's the Novell-Microsoft agreement,…
Submitting a Bug: Howto
Let's face it, occasionally software has bugs. Software can have bugs ranging from a mispelled word in the User Interface…
Open Source: A Howto On Joining
It seems like pretty regularly, I hear from people – more often in person – asking one of two questions:…
Assessing the Health of Open Source Communities
While clearing out my reading stack a few weeks ago, I was flipping through IEEE Computer and came across this…
Open Source Module Management
Those who may have not noticed, about two months ago, CaseySoftware had a major overhaul in terms of layout, functionality…
dotProject: The sincerest form of flattery?
I was sent a link this morning to a new site offering “next-generation online project management software”. I was excited…
PHP Developer Quits aka Working with People you Don't Like
This past Friday, Slashdot was fired up over with the headline: Lead PHP Developer Quits about Jani Taskinen. There were…
Open Source vs the Software Industry
The other day, I was involved in an interesting discussion in the Joel on Softare Business of Software forums. The…