Every startup I’ve been a part of has gone through that, “what are we going to do for email?” stage. It used to be very simple. Those with the technical experience would setup a pop or imap server along with SMTP. Problem solved. However, eventually someone would need to access their e-mail via the Web [...]
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 [...]
This is the second post in the “OSS Web Dev Methodologies” series. The first post covered pre-production with Dia. This post takes on a more generalized approach to the topic of server side programming. Web serving is, perhaps, the place were open source software shines the brightest. Yet, to my surprise, I still meet developers [...]
“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 [...]