On Linux, Web Development, Joomla and Magento commerce
I run a webhosting business based in Sydney, Australia specialising in supporting open source software and managed / custom solutions for our clients. A bit off-topic here but for any web hosts reading this, there’s some great up and coming GPL control panels AND billing systems. Billing Systemhttp://www.ultrize.com/minibill/ (Simple & small but looks good)http://www.solid-state.org/ (More …
Continue reading “Jitterbit – Migrating dissimilar data, continuously even”
Two days ago, I was doing my weekly browse of Freshmeat when I came across Pylucid,a CMS that seems to be getting refactored from it’s original Python foundations into Django. Now, it’s versioning is still 0.8.0alpha1 and yes, it is alpha quality software with many things not working etc. but SOME things really struck me …
Continue reading “Making Django pervasive- Pylucid as an example”
Ok, I realise that my title could create a flame-war but I want to pull some heads here to tell me otherwise, to show me some software that I have missed, or features I am not aware in the Linux programs. I’m a cross-platform guy spending 50% of my time between different *nixes and Windows …
Continue reading “Open Source Windows program kick ass on their KDE, Gnome equivalents”
** – Update – The below is left for reference but it IS apparently now possible to do this using NoMachine V3.0 – see this post Look, it’s just not possible in FreeNX to grab a local console session or ‘mirror’ an existing session using native NX protocol. Part of the problem is how is …
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I have been seeing a surge in people searching for ‘launchy linux’ in my stats from one of my previous posts. I love seeing new ideas that change the way we use something that was considered just a normal part of life. Launchy, Quicksilver and Katapult are great examples of this. I was reading the …
Continue reading “Deskbar – The Katapult equivalent for Gnome”
As I have said before, I am a wannabe web design, developer – I’m actually a wannabe everything but that’s another story. Anyway, I have a few sites I have implemented using Sifr fonts by Mike Davidson. If you don’t know about Sifr fonts, essentially it gives you the ability to use antialiased fonts by …
Continue reading “Using wine to support transparent backgrounds in Linux for flash”
Disclaimer: I am not a programmer ;) In my last entry, I had a dig at Microsoft’s Silverlight for not being cross-platform and referenced python as an example of a truly cross-platform language. I’ve been wanting to collect many of my thoughts and research on the topic and want to put it all together in …