Category Archives: Open Source

Flash Conceptions and Misconceptions

I’ll be at the Adobe Max conference in Las Vegas tomorrow and Wednesday. I’m looking forward to learning as much as I can about what Adobe’s doing these days, especially in the area of Flash, Adobe’s interactive multimedia format and Flex, Adobe’s solution for developing rich internet applications (RIAs) based around Flash. Adobe has provided […]

Open Source Content Management Systems for a Community Website

I have a couple projects on my plate that call for more than a personal publishing platform like WordPress, so I’m evaluating open-source web content management systems. This white paper from Seth Gottlieb of Optaros is invaluable in getting oriented in that space.
These are the basic requirements for the first project, a community website with […]

Women and Open Source Software

Why are there so few women working on open source software projects? From the August 8th issue of Computerworld:
Only about 2% of the thousands of developers working on open-source software projects are women, a number that women already involved in the open-source movement want to see increased.
That issue was the topic of a panel discussion […]