Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with collecting “life-trail” information about where I go and what I do. If I use an application, or make a phone call, I want it logged. I automate the collection of this output into my personal wiki.
Capturing Information for Billing
Being self-employed it’s very important to me […]
Posted in Open Source, Systems Integration, Knowledge Management, Efficiency, Knowledge Retention | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Below is a copy of an email I sent to Wordpress Pro mailing list addressing the dynamic between information stored in a wiki and knowledge spurred on by conversations in a forum. In it I make recommendations as to why and how to link the two assuming that the community won’t shift to a pure […]
Posted in wordpress, wpmu, Wiki, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Organizational Alignment, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Knowledge Retention | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A bit of news - I’ve been asked to be on committee to hold the position of Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008 in Portugal this September.
This is great as I’ll not only see breaking ideas as they happen around the world, but also be responsible to evaluate them and help them […]
Posted in Business I.T., WikiSym, Wiki, Web 2.0, Speaking Engagements, WikiConsulting, Open Source, Knowledge Management | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
A company lives and dies by its ability to sustain its existance. Nothing is more important than knowing where you are in order to make prudent decisions.
My XP laptop (an IBM X30) died last month. As the data was backed up this was not catastrophic disaster in itself.
I’d been running my accounting system(QuickBooks) […]
Posted in Business I.T., Open Source | No Comments »
Friday, December 15th, 2006
It sounds like Socialtext have pulled off masterful feat of technology: taking a web application and making it available offline. Such a goal is really sound: so many of us live in a ever-more mobile world, the frequently disconnected worker is usually excluded from some of the best apps.
Take, for instance, the case of IBM, […]
Posted in Wiki, coding, Open Source, Systems Integration | No Comments »
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Update for: Martin Cleaver, masterfully. » Blog Archive » Amazon S3 + JungleDisk + IBID + Windows + …
SmartSyncPro requires a local drive (like f:) in order to do a incremental backup. It can JungleDrive provides mapping as an http: address (like http://localhost:2667/). They don’t sit nicely together.
Posted in Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Open Source, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Windows Software | 2 Comments »