Archive for the 'Open Source' Category

Forums and Wikis: Providing conversation-knowledge linkage for Wordpress MU

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 […]

WikiSym2008 - I’m Chair for Demos and Posters

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 […]

Running my Accounting Systems under VMware

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) […]

Socialtext available offline!

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, […]

Amazon S3 + S3Drive + SmartSyncPro

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.