Tag: open source


  • Several of the jobs I’ve had in the past years I’ve come into partially based on my activity in the Open Source world. I’m not saying it’s *only* because my open source contributions, but in both cases it definitely had an impact in the whole process. I can point out some clear examples of why…

  • Hey phpBB community, It has been a long time since I logged in here (I haven’t checked, but it must’ve been years). I’ve had great years here at phpBB back in the days of phpBB2 as a user, Support Team Member and Support Team Leader, and even though I have moved on since, phpBB and…

  • Sound on HP Pavilion dv7

    This is another example why the community around open source projects is awesome. It is the perfect example of why you should share your solutions with the world at large. Whether you do it on your own weblog, on a forum, in a mailinglist. The solution to a lot of common problems is a single…

  • In the blogpost I write about making the choice between using standard open source software and components on the one hand, and building your own on the other hand. It is a description of how we do things at Ibuildings and will hopefully help others in making this tough decision at the start of any…

  • I want to make one thing clear: I am far from an economist. I will be mostly speculating, giving my opinion which is based mainly on assumptions and observations. Having said that, I’m writing this to the best of my knowledge and with a clear conscience. Recession, credit crunch, crisis. It doesn’t really matter what…

  • WebKoffer-1.0beta1

    For a while already I’ve been working hard together with some other people to develop a new open source CMS. Yes, yet another CMS. I’ve tried a lot of software already, but nothing suited my needs. Well, you can now see the results of that hard work. Because the first beta release it now available.…