April 24, 2008
at 6:15 am
· Filed under Technology
From the Free Refill Department, the Better Late Than Early Department, and the Boy Who Cried Wolf Department, comes this interesting news item:
Java is “really open” Open Source now. Almost.
Yahoo reported this hot Java news on Earth Day, and Slashdot reported it and rehashed it on World Book Day, eWeek analyzed it last Wednesday, and snail mailed it on Monday, and I’m finally mentioning it on Bring Your Child to Work Day. I hope my 13 year old daughter doesn’t ask me to explain the difference between FOSS and “free beer”, or stump me with questions about how the CDDL is different than the GPL. I just enjoy drinking the free coffee. I drink the free coffee every day at work. Why? I just like it. Don’t ask me any difficult questions.
But seriously… all joking aside, seems like Jonathan Schwartz really gets it.
Tags: FOSS, GPL, java, open-source, Sun
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April 10, 2007
at 4:27 am
· Filed under Methodology, Webdesignology
One of the quickest ways to get started with Ruby on Rails is with Instant Rails. Instant RoR version 1.7 is now available (see v1.7 release notes).
The first package I tried was v1.3, and I was impressed with how easy it was to download, unzip, and get Ruby, PHP, mySQL, and Apache up and running. In addition to the great new Ruby tools, you get PHP, mySQL, and phpMyAdmin in the install package, because that is the quickest way to configure an OpenSource management tool for your mySQL databases.
Includes Mongrel 1.0.1 support.
Very cool. Highly recommended.
Tags: Apache, installer, mySQL, open-source, package, php, RoR, Ruby, web server
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July 20, 2006
at 7:04 am
· Filed under Technology
Jeffrey Veen has a great article on Making A Better Open Source CMS
What do you think? What’s wrong with your CMS (Content Management System) and how can we make it better? Is your CMS way too complicated, or just the right tool for the job?
Tags: CMS, content management, HTML, open-source
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