Posts filed under 'FOSS'
I heart GPL
There are many businesses that value the freedom of their customers. They don’t want to apply vendor locks, but they don’t want to be leeched either. For them, GPL is not an option; it’s a necessity.
Flock is dead
I found a firefox extension that lets me blog from within my browser. So what, you ask? Well, it renders Flock practically useless.
Flock
So I bit the bullet and downloaded Flock, a fork of everyone’s favourite browser. Despite all the skepticism about reinventing the wheel, I think the dev team has done a pretty decent job.
CMMI - CMMI Makes Me Inquisitive
I work for a small company. And that’s a good thing. One main advantage of being small is that you can eliminate a lot of bullshit and get straight to the customer (less middle muddle, as Jason puts it). Being small increases adaptability and flexibility - you’re not a slave of a process, and don’t flinch in the face of change. Projects take ad hoc paths; the team has more room for creativity; hackers thrive. Small, indeed, is the new big.
Free Software, Free Designers
Today, September 10th, is the Software Freedom Day. It’s a day when FOSS geeks celebrate the glory of Free Software, and in a broader sense, Freedom. Although a designer at heart, and more consumer than producer when it comes to software tools, I’m compelled to throw my 0.02 rupees in, because one man on the other side of the world managed to convert me into a faithful admirer of the Church of St.IGNUcius some time back.
Ruby On Rails
Sam Ruby is just wrapping up his talk on Dynamic Languages. If anything, it’s piqued my interest in Ruby, which is another tool I’ll be looking at pretty soon.
Sahana
The word “Sahana” means “relief” in Sri Lanka. Sahana was set up in response to the need for a disaster management application right after the tsunami of December 26, 2004.
Lighting up the hospital
One of the biggest issues with software applications are that they don’t always take in to account the end user. As a result, there are many people who have issues easily solved, that aren’t solved because they don’t have the necessary knowledge. Dr. Nandalal Gunaratne used to be just an end user, but now he’s become part of a program to make good use of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python) for the Health Services.
David Axmark
I’m here at FOSSSL for what seems to be the first live blog post from this conference. It’s pretty hard to write lucidly with Indi on my left and Dulan on my right, but the first two talks have been pretty cool so far. David Axmark’s presentation of MySQL was great - very technical, but informative as well.
Rasmus Lerdorf
Being in the same room as, let alone listening to Rasmus Lerdorf speak, is a surreal experience. PHP has been my favourite programming language for a couple of years now, and yesterday, I had the ultimate privilege of having PHP5 introduced to me by its lead developer. How about that?
