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Open source development and OpenOffice.org

2008.10.10 Fri 7:43 A GMT-07
Gnomer (and Novell employee), Michael Meeks, provides some great insight into the health and viability of the Open Office project. A complex wonder of engineering (supporting .doc in some cases better than Word) while also supporting open standards,

Inkscape and Xara (an example of competion)

2005.10.13 Thu 10:21 A GMT-07
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SpikeSource Open Testing Contest

2005.08.11 Thu 5:39 P GMT-07
Calling all testers (and developers). In an effort to boost testing among open source components, my employer is offering $20,000 in awards to Open Source projects who compete in the SpikeSource Open Testing Contest. I've blogged a little about

IBM opening the secret sauce for Web Fountain?

2005.08.08 Mon 11:46 P GMT-07
Up above Silicon Valley, IBM has a big research facility. One of the big projects they are working on over there at Almaden is called Web Fountain. Think of it as Google on steroids. A search engine that can determine sentiment (can determine what
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Are there areas where Open Source won't work?

2005.08.08 Mon 11:24 P GMT-07
One of the biggest shockers for me at OSCON happened during the first day. I was sitting in the second row of the Rails session and I looked behind me to see what type of laptops people were using. I would guess that 80% were PowerBooks. Of the x8
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Testing - an afterthought for opensource?

2005.07.20 Wed 11:04 P GMT-07
From my experience commercial testing of software consists of manual qa (grunt labor). Little is automated. I personally feel that even with a slight investment by developers to create unit tests, that effort would pay off later (especially in the
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Preaching to the choir

2005.07.04 Mon 11:32 P GMT-07
I guess that's one of the benefits of the "long tail" of blogging. I can get on my soapbox and speak directly to my audience. I know what to say and how to tweak their buttons. Most of my family and friends stay pretty far away from my blog since
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