Vimeo announces new ‘Advanced’ Statistics

Posted under Open Source on Thursday, 6 May, 2010 by

I’ve been a fan of Vimeo for a while now – its a video hosting service similar to YouTube but with a keener appreciation of interface design and community base largely focused on cool techniques for creating motion graphics which push the envelop. Vimeos users are generally professionals or serious hobbyists when it comes to video –... Read More

Building custom forms – whats the best extension?

Posted under Open Source on Thursday, 6 May, 2010 by

For some reason Joomla core has never natively been able to create custom forms – I’m not sure if this is due to it originally (pre-1.5 releases) allowing non-article content types to sit in the usual database tables that comprise your site, or something else… However, for years there have been multiple extensions floating around... Read More

Drupal Development Proliferates as Version 7 Nears

Posted under Open Source on Saturday, 1 May, 2010 by

Getting the next version of Drupal, the popular open source content management system, is top of mind for Drupal creator Dries Buytaert. But speaking at the Drupalcon conference this week, Buytaert noted that Drupal 7 still requires additional work, with more than a hundred bugs remaining until Drupal 7 is ready. Yet that’s not stopping work on... Read More

Introducing DotNetNuke, the Open Source, .NET-driven CMS

Posted under Open Source on Saturday, 1 May, 2010 by

With businesses clamoring for the ability to manage complex content repositories and community interactions over the Web, the prospect of creating custom solutions from scratch is becoming increasingly unpalatable. Developers are instead opting to leave content management’s often gory details to an enterprise content management system, using the... Read More

Php Web Development Tools ? Use Them to Excel in Website Development

Posted under BPO and KPO, CMM - Capability Maturity Model, Open Source on Tuesday, 20 April, 2010 by

PHP Development Tools are almost freely available on the world wide and this makes the businesses play big in the online and Internet marketing industry today. With next generation PHP tools, a website development company has enormous power in its ambit to render innovative functionalities for use by clients across the globe. Many of the PHP development... Read More

Announcing the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0

Posted under CMM - Capability Maturity Model, Open Source on Tuesday, 20 April, 2010 by

Microsoft today announced at DrupalCon 2010 the release of a Community Technology Preview of the new SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 with support for PHP Data Objects. This is a new technical bridge for PHP developers that will make it less complex for them to target multiple databases, and make it easier for PHP applications like the upcoming Drupal... Read More

Essential Technology: Open Source CRM and BI

Posted under Open Source on Saturday, 10 April, 2010 by

The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company. The acronym refers to the foundational foursome of the open-source movement: the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and, collectively, the Perl, PHP and Python programming languages. Development tools such as Eclipse and application servers such as... Read More

Open-Source Referees Change the Rules

Posted under Open Source on Saturday, 10 April, 2010 by

“The day of the open-source license as tribal flag or corporate monument will have to come to a close,” the Open Source Initiative’s board says about its new guidelines on granting new licenses and classifying existing ones.The Open Source Initiative board on Wednesday adopted a new way of approving open-source licenses, as well as... Read More

Open Source Business Models: What is an Open Source Business Model?

Posted under Open Source on Saturday, 10 April, 2010 by

Despite many articles talk about Open Source business models, and some papers describe also possible taxonomies of open source business models, none of them is analyzing in depth all components which describe the business logic of a specific firm. FLOSSMETRICS has assessed a list of 120 companies – resulting in the biggest empirical analysis of the... Read More