Category Archives: open source

SVG to HTML Conversion

March 19, 2008 – 10:08 pm

I’ve downloaded Inkscape, which is rather cool - though it does seem to crash occasionally and doesn’t seem to have an auto save feature. But it is open source and I’m running the windows version!
What is cool is it is open source and I can set the drawing page to be desktop sizes - So […]

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The Effusion Group

February 25, 2008 – 10:27 am

This is a group of open standards based companies that formed a group in 2002.  The organisation is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Effusion Group | Declaring Open Season
Where to look to start a similar group in Wellington?
The Wellington linux user group - next meeting March 10 2008.
The Wellington web standards group - next meeting […]

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Trac + SVN = Free

February 12, 2008 – 11:34 am

It’s amazing what you will find online if you look harder enough, or are patient enough to wait for the results. Assembla provide Trac and SVN, allowing issue tracking integration as well as chat, scrum (via chat) under the heading: Accelerating Software Development.

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Google addicted to making my life more interesting?

November 5, 2007 – 8:50 pm

Well perhaps not my life specifically… but Open Social this week… Android and the open handset alliance next week (November 12 will be the release of the SDK).
Ok Open social perhaps wasn’t as exciting as I might as hoped, others also feel it was a little over hyped. But it is still an open API […]

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open source wiki

October 5, 2007 – 3:39 am

I have been updating my earlier blog entry on Apache httpd, php, mySQL and phpWiki on Windows and I have come across another set of wiki web CMS total solutions that were mentioned on the tiki wiki website.
They are:

Mambo server

Joomla

Plone

What I am looking for is a solution that will make deploying a user managed wiki […]

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