InfoWorld compiles its list of best open source software every year about this time. This is this year’s list. For some reason, likely tied to a misguided attempt to generate more page views, InfoWorld presents the list as a series of slides which load extremely slowly. In this post, I’ve pulled out all of the [...]
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InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software 2009
Monday, September 14th, 2009Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009This article summarizes research that a group did into Web application design practices. Web application design teams that have a shared understanding of a project’s context and objectives produce better results.
We did not find any correlation with user satisfaction and those teams with the most specialized team members, one way or the other: some teams [...]
(Microsoft) Access for the Web?
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Anybody who has ever used Microsoft Access knows that it’s a very high leverage tool. In a short while you can get basic database functionality, forms and reports up and running quickly. It certainly has its limitations but in some instances it’s just the right solution.
With that background, this post was pretty interesting to skim. [...]
PayPal – product comparison – Reference
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Breakdown of PayPal’s current offerings for supporting e-commerce website development:
Email Payments – for electronic invoicing and receipt of payment
Website Payments Standard – checkout through PayPal
Website Payments Pro – checkout through your website or PayPal
Website Payments Pro – checkout through your website or PayPal
Payflow Pro – checkout through your website or PayPal – need internet merchant [...]
Behind the Firewall vs. Cloud
Friday, February 27th, 2009Cloud computing is hot. But here’s an interesting article about the cloud model versus the downloadable / behind-the-firewall model that concludes that there are still arguments for downloadable and self-hosted software, chief being control.
Firewall vs. Cloud
And this one is about a cloud-based web app development platform which went under:
Coghead
In my opinion that’s one of the [...]
