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  1. Those that provide an alternative to closed source by cjmt · · Score: 3, Informative · on How To Tell Open-Source Winners From Losers
    The big winners (to me) are those projects who provide a viable or better alternative to available closed source software and those that you'd put into a business and trust to "just work". To find them you need to test, test and test some more. My winners, those that spring to mind immediately as being trusted not to embarrass me, are The other winners are those that are used everyday as part of the tools to do the job and never really thought about. Nmap, vim, perl, portupgrade, cvsup and many more.
  2. How to use all the tools and methods given so far by ravenII · · Score: 1 · on Future Skills for a Budding Web Designer?

    Get one or two portal packages such as http://phpnuke.org/ or http://www.metadot.com/ like packages and change or modify them to your hearts content. You will use mentioned HTML CSS PHP MySQL in the process and you can learn about interfaces with many a themes provided by these portal developers. You will need Photoshop like graphic package to change these. I do not create web sites but I am/have been involved in bringing corporate and governmental databases on to the web. When ever a web designer comes to our firm, one thing I ask is to change one of the given portals to make them look and appear different. So the designer gets his feet wet in the whole shibang, Linux Apache Mysql and PHP. It might help you too. By the way these portals are internationalised and have support for many a languages. If the language you want is missing, you can get involved in translating.

  3. Re:Top need is for reliability by Corrado · · Score: 1 · on Bringing Open Source To The Classroom

    I am currently doing some computer volunteering at my children's school and I am trying to lead the charge with OSS. Money and support is tight, so OSS sits pretty well with everyone in charge.

    My first project was putting in a firewall. They were running pretty much wide open before I got there. I slapped IPCop on a spare box they had laying around and changed the whole nature of their network (for the better :). They are now running DHCP (no more hardcoded IPs), Squid, and have a content filter (required by management). In fact, they have outgrown the hardware and I am going to be replacing it soon with a rackmount server from eBay.

    Next up is a web server - I am using Metadot to build an information portal. The plan is to use it for general school stuff intially. Then, after everyone gets a little more comfortable with the idea, we are going to open it up to the teachers to add their own content. Pretty cool!

    They are currently running Windows and are having a hell of a time trying to keep them running. The computer teacher is spending more time fighting fires than teaching! The next big thing I am going to pilot is putting Linux on the desktop, probably by using something like K12LTSP. All I have to do is isolate and confirm those few Windows only programs that are required (grading software, library software, etc.) After I get those running on Linux (Win4Lin or something) we will be good to go with a terminal server rollout.

  4. Re:What are the requirements? by Black+Perl · · Score: 1 · on Using MovableType?

    I would agree with the above post. Take a step back, and rather than deciding which weblog to use, ask yourself if a weblog is what you really need.

    A general-purpose open source CMS, such as WebGUI - check out the demo, it's nice - can be used as a weblog, but you can also provide the ability for certain people to create new pages, drop widgets on these pages (calendars, discussion forums, versioned document repositories, tables from databases, etc). Depending on what your needs are, you may find a weblog too inflexible.

    Another type of application to consider is a portal. An example is Metadot, which has a large library of widgets to choose from, and can also extend the page design to the users, who can choose the widgets they would like to appear on their own page (like a my.yahoo.com).

  5. Developers, developers, developers, developers by Ian_Bailey · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft, DoJ Reach Tentative Settlement

    For those of you who didn't know what he was talking about:
    Ballmer Screaming
    and
    Developers, developers, developers, developers: the Ultimate Remix
    Kinda funny that I found both of these browsing http://homepages.mac.com

  6. Open Source Extreme Programming for a startup by DavidInTx · · Score: 1 · on "Extreme" Programming
    Where I work, we use extreme programming. Before I started here, my impressions of extreme programming were simply that it used pair programming. However, that is a relatively small part of the entire package.

    The part of XP that are most appealing to me are the iteration cycles: Essentially, the programming team takes a list of all possible improvements or features from the business side. The team then estimates how long each feature will take to implement. For example, creating a new look may take 3 weeks of pair programming. We convert the weeks into points (3 weeks may be worth 5 points), so that each feature gets a point value. We tell the business side that based on our past performance, we can finish 30 points in the next three week. Now, while the points of all the stories may add up to 100 or more points, they can only spend 30 points in a given three week iteration. At the end of the iteration, we do it all again.

  7. Look at Metadot open source portal server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Looking For Wireless Handheld E-Mail And Web?

    Metadot has release an interesting portal software that can push itself to cellphone, emails and pagers. Check it out at Metadot.com
    Daniel