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09 September 2008 ~ 8 Comments

Redmine – lean and powerful project management

I’ve started to use Redmine a bit in my personal business to help manage the few projects that go through my doors. A buddy, Brian Wigginton, turned me on to it. We have spent several nights looking for a good app that can manage, tasks, issue and project workflow from beginning to completion. After trying [...]

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16 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Browser Stats in the Business World

So most people are talking about the rise of Firefox, and the market share it is capturing. But one thing people are failing to mention is the market that these stats are taking from. If I take one of my own communities (granted very small) which focuses on open source on laptops then you would [...]

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09 July 2008 ~ 2 Comments

b2evolution?

I’ll admit it, I was a bit nervous about using b2evolution. The admin interface in wordpress had set my standards pretty high. But, much like my distro of choice, I like to choose things away from the norm. I can report that I have been pleasantly surprised. First off the admin interface is very sharp. [...]

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07 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Gentoo 2008.0 Released

It seems Gentoo has finally released the 2008.0, the first release since 2007.0 which was released early in 2007. This is huge, there have been many changes in packages and such in the portage tree that an initial install took a lot longer then needed to have an up-to-date system. Along with just the updated [...]

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30 June 2008 ~ 9 Comments

Is it time for a KDE fork?

To put it bluntly Hell No! In a post over at Pratical Technology, they argue that it might be time to fork KDE, while I think the title was just meant to stir the pot, I really thinks his title should be true. First, let me start by saying that Forking is not the solution. [...]

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29 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

no-www

Well, I am now a Class B no-www site. This means that I politely and quitely redirect all incoming www.gibbonsr.net to gibbonsr.net. Why? B/C it is a waste of time to type it and tell it to someone. Back in the day, I might see why this is necessary, and it some cases it might [...]

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