February 27th, 2006
by Tim Cull
Read a good article today about running corporate projects like open source projects. It claims that if more corporate projects were run like open source projects, they would be more successful. The article emphasizes the fact that only 30% of corporate projects are considered successful and in contrast highlights very successful open source projects like GIMP.
I think a lot of what the article has to say might have some merit. But the 30%-to-GIMP comparison doesn’t hold water: take a look at SourceForge.net some day and consider how many projects are permanently stuck in the pre-planning or alpha stage, never to release a working piece of software. I’d bet the ratio of those to GIMP-like projects is much worse than 30%.
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February 19th, 2006
by Tim Cull
More old links I’ve been meaning to post.
This article does a great job cataloging open source software of all kinds to run your business:
http://www.infoworld.com/reports/32SRoss.html
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February 16th, 2006
by Tim Cull
So I’ve been a little buried lately. Here are some snippets I’d been meaning to write about a bit but realize now I won’t have time:
Someone I work with sent me a link to these sites where you can get spare parts for just about anything:
Partstore.com
WeHaveParts.com
Also, an interesting discussion about why some people hate frameworks
Here’s some good free screenshot software:
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Here is a site giving access to free scientific journals:
http://www.doaj.org/
Here’s a pretty sweet site with pre-made regular expressions for common things like telephone number, zip codes, etc:
http://www.regexlib.com/
Scooter Software makes an awesome text file comparison tool:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/
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