Posts Tagged: Open Source Software
Live From the Formosa Session #5 and Zap Your PRAM 3
Posted by on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 in - 5 comments
Good friends Peter, Dan and I have recorded another session of Live from the Formosa Tea House. Basically, we record our lunch time conversation and put it online. • We got off to a rough start, but once things got rolling, we had a great conversation. This time we discussed the upcoming Zap … read more »
Announcing the Swat Web Application Toolkit
Posted by on Saturday, October 22, 2005 in - 5 comments
Over at in the silverorange Labs today, we announced our first open-source project. Swat is a web application toolkit build on PHP5. It’s not totally x-treme or all web-twenny. Rather, it’s a solid (or at least “solidifying”) toolkit containing many of the widgets we use to build web applications …
Fedora Logo Development Process
Posted by on Thursday, September 15, 2005 in - 16 comments
Matt Munoz, a designer at Red Hat, has posted an interested walk-through of the development of a logo/visual-identity concept for Fedora Linux. It’s fascinating to see the process and justification behind a logo idea like this. • This isn’t an official logo yet. It has been proposed and is being …
CBC Radio 3 Podcast in Ogg Vorbis
Posted by on Monday, September 12, 2005 in - 1 comment
Despite having locked-out their employees, the CBC continues to do cool things (somehow). • The CBC Radio 3 Podcast features Canadian emerging artists who have given the CBC the ok to share their music online. If that wasn’t cool enough, the show is now available in the free and open-source … read more »
Using MediaWiki to Build a “normal” Website
Posted by on Friday, September 9, 2005 in - 22 comments
Despite the misleading title, this is not a tutorial on how to use MediaWiki to build a website. Rather, it is an observation that MediaWiki can be used to build sites that look and feel like tradition (non-Wiki) websites. • What the heck is a “wiki”? • First, some background. A wiki is a …
WikiPEI: The Prince Edward Island Wiki
Posted by on Monday, August 22, 2005 in - 20 comments
For years, our humble Canadian province of Prince Edward Island had a far better government website than any other I have seen. A few years ago I even posted on Slashdot about how great the site was. The site was built by my friend Peter Rukavina and his company Reinvented. Recently, though, Peter …
RSS Readers for the Gnome Desktop
Posted by on Friday, July 15, 2005 in - 1 comment
I’ve written a brief article about RSS readers available for the free/open-source Gnome Desktop for The Gnome Journal. • The Gnome Journal is “an online magazine devoted to everything surrounding the Gnome Desktop”. This issue also includes an interesting article about marketing Gnome … read more »
Intellectual Property Rights Vs. Human Rights
Posted by on Saturday, July 2, 2005 in - 3 comments
Just as I was feeling good about humanity, I visit the CBC Streaming Audio page only to see this message: • “Due to rights issues around the Live 8 concert, CBC.ca will stop streaming all CBC Radio One signals at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 2. The streaming will resume sometime after 4 a.m. ET … read more »
The Catch-22 of Open Format Adoption, Part 3: Office Documents
Posted by on Sunday, June 19, 2005 in - 12 comments
Having looked at music formats and instant messaging protocols, this final installment of a short series on open formats covers what may be the most ubiquitous of digital file formats: office documents. Spreadsheets, presentations, desktop databases, and the common text document hold most of the …
Free and Open Source Software at silverorange
Posted by on Thursday, June 16, 2005 in
I’ve written a short article about how we use free and open source software at silverorange, the web development firm where I work. • “Over the past few years at silverorange we have become more interested in and more aware of free and open source software. The interest started on the server …