Colleague Demitrious Kelly (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but “jobs” is described as
A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon linux, php5.2, and mysql 5.1 wherein work can be stored in a database, and processed [...]
Interesting development today in the blog publishing space with the announcement of Melody and the Open Melody Software Group.
Melody is a new WordPress competitor — bring it!
Based on Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), Byrne Reese writes “[the project's] focus initially is consciously not about features, but rather upon laying the groundwork through a [...]
Open source project hosting has long been a topic that interests me. I stopped recommending venerable SourceForge.net some years ago, as it’s proprietary stack (open source prior to 2001) became crufty and fell behind some of the newer and more agile offerings.
Well, I think it’s time to revisit.
I received an email on Tuesday from the [...]
Only two more weeks until WordCamp San Francisco 2009. I can’t wait!
This is the original WordCamp. Every year has been fantastic! There is no other event that brings so many of WordPress’s elite together.
They’re friendly people to boot! Thankfully, the elite are welcoming and generous with their time, knowledge, talent and bad jokes (puns). It’s [...]
Daniel Jalkut, the proprietor of Red Sweater Software, is the developer of the excellent Mac desktop blog editor MarsEdit. He is also a code contributor to WordPress.
I became acquainted with him about two years ago when he started submitting detailed bug tickets (often with patches!) to WordPress.
I’m the developer of MarsEdit, a Mac desktop blogging [...]
Wow, the title “Open Source Software Project Management Web Service?” is a mouthful.
Working on a small project with a friend (mentioned in “Learning by doing something else“) is a great opportunity to check out tools in other parts of the web development stack. I’ve been interested in trying out some of the software project management [...]
The GNU Project is 25 years young! And Richard Stallman and crew are working as hard as ever. Thank you!
The GNU Project is most famous for it’s versions of UNIX utilities and the GPL family of licenses. But whatever you think of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation’s hard-line approaches and politics, everyone has [...]
Peter Nowak wrote a CBC article yesterday about Quebec being sued for not accepting software contract bids:
“Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused…”
The article has the tantalizing title of [...]
Drupal Camp Victoria is happening all day Friday and Saturday Sept 5th and 6th. It’s hosted by North Studio at their training center, 301-771 Vernon Ave (plaza just coming into Victoria, near Save-On-Foods, Walmart).
It’s a free event, and if your work is any way related to the web, you will be missing out if [...]
Six Apart VP Anil’s response today on the official Six Apart blog to my Movable Type Pro Introduction video parody doesn’t surprise me, but where is the link love?