Different Thoughts
Project Management Open Source Software
There is almost an year since working with qdpm, http://qdpm.net/, which is a great tool for project management, however I wanted something more complete and if possible that had svn support for the projects.
update: qdpm supports gantt charts from version 5.5
Here is what I found:
1. Clockingi.com, http://www.clockingit.com/ has nice graphical reports, gantt charts and svn support
2. Codeni, http://www.codendi.com from XEROX, supports svn/cvs repository browsing and gantt charts, seems a complex and mature product
3. Collabtive, http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/, it’s a simple, lightweight project management too, useful for a very small team or a freelancer
4. project-open, http://www.project-open.org/
5. endeavour, http://endeavour-mgmt.sourceforge.net, you can check it’s features here: http://endeavour-mgmt.sourceforge.net/features1.html
6. Redmine, http://www.redmine.org/, gantt charts, integrations with SVN, CVS, Mercurial, etc.. written in Ruby on Rails
Yahoo invisible script
Recently I started to research the posibility to create a website from which people can see if their friends are invisible or not.
Let me tell you even I am an experienced programmer, this is not a trivial thing to do. However hopefully with a little help I can get the new website going in about a month. › Continue reading
Idea Using API for Translation and Detection
When reading how to use google’s translation and detection API I thought to a very easy to implement idea, targeted to a specific country.
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Yahoo Live dies on December 3rd
I recently read that Yahoo Live will close on December 3rd. I am not sure if there is an economical environment involved but I tend to think so especially because running such a service is really not that cheap.
In the announce Yahoo does not specify the reason for such a decision, however I am sure it was not easy for them to take it.
OpenID a great choice for Authenticating Users to multiple websites
I am sure almost all of us have an endless number of accounts on different sites including several email accounts, social websites accounts, blogs, online shopping carts and so on.
I always find it difficult to remember all the usernames and passwords that I use (especially when I come back from holidays 
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Openid.net offers the possibility for using a single user account for all the websites you use.
Websites like Yahoo, WordPress, AOL, Blogger, Flickr, Orange, Technorati offers an openid account.
This means that you may already have an openid account!
Is oscommerce a good option TODAY?
Many will argue that oscommerce is out of date – especially that some other open source shopping carts like magentocommerce seems for some to be a far better choice.
The default installation of osc is indeed outdated and simple. But, because of the vast community it has, the vast spread of the software and been so simple and fast the oscommerce can be fully customized to any kind of needs a merchant can have (in matter of design, user experience and backend programming).
Recently a valid option many like to think is magentocommerce.
For now – I would not recommend magentocommerce to my customers without warning them first. Magento is DEADLY slow and has a deadly bad documentation. The customization process takes a lot more time and of course this is translated into money – Costs of running a magento shop are a lot higher. I tend to think that magento hasn’t a good documentation just because their staff must offer expensive services to help merchants to run an open source e-commerce application…