I just got home from a two week trip. While disconnected, I had a sudden brain fart. I saw Twitter reinvented as a distributed system and provided free as open source. This morning I woke up to find the ‘Twitter Fail Whale’ in full effect. Twitter is, once again, overloaded with users. This is so [...]
If you don’t use a version control system (aka “Source Control” and “Revision Control”), then start. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, read up on the Wikipedia entry. In a nutshell, a version control system is the best way to allow multiple developers make changes to a single code base. The features and advantages of [...]
“OSS Web Dev Methodologies” will be a series of posts designed to introduce you to some of the many tools available on open source software platforms. Let’s begin with the pre-production stage of the development cycle.
Any significantly large web development project usually begins with a pre-production phase chop full of documentation. This documentation usually includes [...]
Bring out The Gimp! For the unlikely reader who’s never heard of Gimp, it’s basically the open source version of Photoshop.
My friend: You’ll let them use Photoshop, right?
Me: Well, no…
My friend: You mean you’re going to make them use Gimp?
That was part of a conversation I had recently while talking about the Webcraft Studios concept. [...]
I could use a couple of good contractors to help with the slew of projects people are sending my way these days. Most of the contractors I know are really busy right now - it’s a great time to be a web developer. I took it as an opportunity to find some folks who are [...]
The Green (Sustainability) Movement
Being green is the notion of living in harmony with the Earth and to maintain a sustainable global environment for the future. Lately, it’s become vogue to be green. Maybe it was Gore’s little movie; or maybe it’s just the price of gas. Whatever the reason, green culture is growing by leaps [...]