I’ve spent the past few days playing around with Collabtive, the open source project management or collaboration application. I’ve been hooked using it because of it’s easy to use interface. It appears after all this time that somebody finally got it right with open source project management. Not only is the application totally usable, to [...]

As you are well aware, WordPress is an open source content management system. And it has been the most influential of it’s kind. It is where it is because of the hard work and dedication of thousands across the world. Because of the contributions that have been made from developers, designers, and end users, WordPress [...]

I was asked recently by a good friend of mine what the difference was between having your own web desktop and using Google’s web based productivity tools. It’s actually a good question. But there are 3 specific reasons why I am enjoying using the open source eyeOS and hosting my own web desktop, as opposed [...]

I wrote a while back about eyeOS, the open source web desktop and the benefits for web workers in a post titled 8 Ways EyeOS Can Help You in Business. In case you are still in the dark as to what eyeOS is refer to that page. In this post I am going to show [...]

If you have not yet heard of the Open Source desktop publishing software Scribus, well then this will be a pleasant surprise. Scribus, licensed under the GNU General Public License, is a completely free and open source alternative to Adobe’s Pagemaker and Apple’s Pages. With it you can create a variety of different documents that for one reason or the other, need to look good!

A critical element in the development of any online project is planning. And more specifically in the development of software a term is used called “Prototyping”. The act of sketching or laying out a rough draft of an application before it is actually completed. Over the years the best applications I have seen on the web are those that were planned well in advance…