May 1, 2015 | Documentation, IT, Management, Open Source
Knock down information silos and improve operational efficiency By Charles Groce, CEO of Pearl Street Consulting Republished from Graphic News magazine, May 2015 I recently had the displeasure of having a dryer belt slip in my laundry room, rendering the dryer useless...
Apr 21, 2015 | Open Source
Starting today, Google will dock points off websites SEO scores if they’re not mobile-responsive in design. Load up your website on your smartphone, and if it doesn’t load up as a single-column, easy to browse website, and it just looks like a zoomed out...
Apr 18, 2015 | Open Source
Open source software company Black Duck Software just released the results of the latest Future of Open Source Survey, and they definitely point to where the trends are going. Some highlights: Seventy-eight percent of respondents said their companies run part or all...
Apr 14, 2015 | Open Source
So a couple of geeks out there on the internet had an interesting question. How much of Google+ is really just vapor? After all, Google basically created its social media network out of thin air, converting about 2 billion Gmail and Youtube accounts into Google+...
Mar 12, 2015 | Open Source
from ZDNet: “During the 2014 full year, SugarCRM reported that Asia-Pacific Japan was the company’s top-performing region, experiencing a 52 percent year-on-year growth. This is up from November last year, when the company reported that it was already...
Mar 8, 2015 | Open Source
If you’ve got a Windows 2003 server running your small or medium-sized business network, you need to take the FREAK threat seriously. The vulnerabilities in various operating systems that this attack is taking advantage of are enabled in Windows 2003 and...
Mar 2, 2015 | Open Source
Wired spent the last year migrating 17 blogs, 12 databases, and 100’s of thousands of posts into a single WordPress installation. Here’s what they got: mobile first, responsive design; performance enhancements; improved search with Solr integration; and...
Feb 4, 2015 | Open Source
YouTube just announced that finally HTML5 is the default rendering method of its videos instead of Flash. This has been a long time coming and was completely to be expected given that Flash was denied the iPad a couple of years ago because of performance issues. ...
Jan 29, 2015 | Open Source
Here’s something I’m going to be checking out soon. It’s called Seafile, and it’s an open source cloud storage and collaboration platform with a self-hosting option (like ownCloud, which I’m far more familiar with). I’m interested...
Dec 10, 2014 | Open Source
Check out this awesome utility out of Taiwan called CloneZilla, a disk and partition cloning system that works like Norton Ghost. CloneZilla can make a copy of your mission critical systems in no time. CloneZilla live can ” clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients...
