Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally

Yes, it is that time of year again, International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and in celebration here is the desktop I made last year to celebrate.  Download and enjoy.

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How about that!  Apple Computer">Apple

has thrown a curve ball to the community today by launching Mac OS ForgeRead the rest »

Another service that was announced at this years OSCON was Hiveminder.  Hiveminder has been described as “RT for your life” by some of its users… and I gotta say I agree.  It is currently in a private beta phase, but I was lucky enough to get an account so lets briefly look over some of the high points.

For a more in-depth look at Hiveminder, surf on over to ani ruhama.

RT for your life

If you are not familiar with RT, the site describes it this way:

RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users.

Hiveminder takes the best parts of RT, slaps on some AJAX and more intuitive terminology, delivering a fun and useful experience for the most part.

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The money I was counting on to get me to SF for WordCamp isn’t going to make it to me in time, so I am going to be a no show.

I was really looking forward to meeting so many of you, and cornering Matt to have a little chat about current events in our community.  Looks like that will have to wait as well. Read the rest »

There is a comparison of features between SF and Google Code over at Engtech.  There is also an article on Newsforge.  I have already set up an account and checked in the code for K2 so that I can play a bit… I am currently underwhelmed.

Google announced their Google Code Project hosting service today at the O’reilly Open Source convention.  Greg Stein of Apache, SVN and WebDAV fame announced in his session the new service from Google that is targeted at the Open Source Community. Read the rest »