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There are many benefits to using open source software for web applications: rapid development cycles, leading functionality in many market segments, and of course the price. But actually deploying those applications can be a huge, daunting nuisance. The WordPress installation instructions, for example, may brag of taking only five minutes - but that presumes you are already running MySQL and PHP and a web server and are comfortable configuring them.
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications are emerging as some of the best available applications for on-demand use. There are few applications that you can access within a browser that are more immediately useful. While many web workers use fee-based applications such as Salesforce.com, there is a growing crop of free alternatives. In this post, I'll round up two of these that are worth looking into.
For years, I've been looking for a serious online research tool that would let me not just add to the ratnest of bookmarks and favorites I have, but really control, annotate, correlate, tag and source online material. Last week, as I was gearing up to join WWD, I found an awesomely deep, free, open source and innovative tool in the form of a super-stable FireFox 2.0 extension: Zotero.
Whether you do some blogging, operate an e-commerce site, or simply have moving pictures in the back of your mind to work with, web-based video and animation should probably be on your radar.
Depending on how far back you go with the internet, it's pretty likely that you used to use Netscape Navigator to browser the web.
If you're like me, you're constantly looking for good, free software applications. The web is teeming with applications that can make you a better web workerﾖfrom organizational applications, to graphics applications, to system utilities. In this post, I'll round up four of my favorite pit stops when looking for high-quality, free programs.
Do you carry a USB thumb drive with you at all times? If not, you should. You can get a lot of capacity for not much money, and keep your drive right on your keychain. These are great for backing up critical files, transferring files between computers, and more. Plus, if you canvas the world of free, open source software you can find a lot of cool applications with very small footprints that you can have on your pocket drive all the time.
Mac users trolling for interesting, free open source software may want to peek into Google's new Mac Developer Playground unveiled this week. It contains a collection of open source software tools and applications created by Google's own engineers, some of which are mature applications and some of which are brand new.
