Wizards of the Coast are looking to earn more money from their D&D assets, this has led to some 3rd party creators to worry about their right of access to the rules which had been available to them via WotC Open Gaming Licence OGL 1.0a. The similarity with the software industry’s open source wars and…
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I had a chat with Kieron Bradley, a long time collaborator and colleague and we looked at new age storage/persistence architectures. New ideas are coming out of Linkedin, and the recommended further reading includes,
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Obviously ERP has been around a while, in my researches, I came across these two open source ERP packages; they obviously run on distributed systems platform. Open ERP This includes CRM, Accounts Payable and PoS. Also Project Accounting, Social Networking and an Issue Tracker, think I was looking at Project Accounting and the limited opportunity…
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Not just for file sharing, but also supports printing and name services. I now make it part of my standard Linux builds within Virtual Box. I can then use VB shared folders or the host OS virtual file systems. (Is this true for Mac OS? Need to test it).
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While http://delicious.com/ is a fantastic social bookmarking site, its not easy to implement inside a firewall, which needs to be done if the URL list to be tagged is an intranet resource. Open Source alternatives Here’s some alternatives, Scuttle Akarru and even Slynkr which needs from Glassfish Installing Scuttle Download WAMP – this works pretty…
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Glassfish was Sun’s open source application server. This was written in 2009 and at some point Sun/Oracle shit canned it. These notes are no longer worthwhile and I have marked the article as deprecated. If you want to see what I said, then you can read more …
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Is this the future collaboration platform for the Internet, or another amazing waste of time. The EU Commission took it seriously for a while, and it’s still going. Here are my notes and links,
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