Tag: freesoftwaremagazine

  • MediaWiki Review

    The latest in my reviews of hosting provider open source software is available at Free Software Magazine. You can read the full review here. Wikipedia is a Wiki – basically a information storage engine that works entirely through a web interface. …

  • Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation review

    My review of the Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation had made it into Issue 11 of Free Software Magazine. Here’s a taster: Sun have made some headlines in recent months through the release of their Ultra 20 workstation and a number of new servers based…

  • Gallery 2.0 Review

    My review of Gallery 2.0, part of the ongoing hosting service FOSS technology series for Free Software Magazine, has now been published. From the intro: Sharing photos has become one of the more popular methods of sharing information on the intern…

  • Agile Web Development with Rails

    My review of Agile Web Development with Rails (by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz) has just made it to the the front page of Free Software Magazine. It’s an excellent guide t…

  • WordPress Review

    My latest Free Software Magazine newsletter article is on WordPress – a package I use quite a lot for my own blogging. The article is part of the newsletter series on Hosting Service open source software. Read on for my thoughts on what makes Word…

  • Hosting Services and free software

    I’ve started a new series, through the Free Software Magazine newsletter, on the use of open source technology by hosting services, including the ready-to-run applications such as WordPress, phpBB and Gallery. The aim is to look at these individua…

  • New Blog at Free Software Magazine

    As if I didn’t have enough to do…. I’m now a blogger at Free Software Magazine. I’ve posted a little ‘Welcome, this is what I plan to do here’ piece as my first piece. The page for the blog is here, or you can subscribe to the RSS feed using thi…

  • Randal Schwartz’s Perls of Wisdom

    If you don’t associate Randal Schwartz with Perl then you obviously don’t know how much of an influence Randal has been in spreading the Perl gospel. Randal has been talking about Perl for years, writing articles and contributing to books like the…

  • Degunking Linux

    It may seem like this is all I’ve been doing for the past few months, but I have yet another book review that has made it on to the ‘free’ area of Free Software Magazine. This time it is Degunking Linux by Roderick W Smith. At its heart, this book…

  • Linux Server Security

    Frequently you will hear about how secure Linux is as an operating system. Although a lot of the security of the OS comes from the many eyes examining the code and the strong developer spirit that means software is frequently updated and improved,…