Origo – Distributed Software Development

Origo is an open, modular and extensible software development, management and distribution platform. Aimed at software developers, Origo provides a set of services for combining, integrating and facilitating the development process over a network. Origo provides services like source control management, issue tracking, statistics, release hosting, wiki, blog and features for communicating and networking [...]

10 Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School

I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.
1. Your diploma doesn’t help [...]

DrupalCon is coming to Paris in September 2009

Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon.
First of all we want to congratulate the teams from the other two candidate cities, Maastricht and Cologne. We know they worked hard, spent a lot of energy and did a great job. We’re looking forward to working with [...]

Ten Characteristics of a Good Client

Do you know the key characteristics of a good client? Can you distinguish the good clients from the bad before you start working for them?
Or, when the tables are turned, do you have what it takes to become a good client when your business expands and you’re ready to hire other freelancers?
Here are ten characteristics [...]

7 Useful Apps For OSX Web Designers

Because of various requests I received lately and the irrefutable fact, that there are plenty of useful yet sometimes rather unknown applications available for OSX, I’d like to share some of my most vital pieces of software with you ordered by function below.
Image Editing – Photoshop CS3 / CS4
Even though there are some really promising [...]

Happy Birthday Drupal, you are eight

Eight years ago today Drupal 1.0.0 was released. It’s been a big year for Drupal, another big release with Drupal 6, a lot of awards, and a lot of recognition. The project has had some notable departures, promotions, and the addition of many great contributors and users. Happy Birthday to the Drupal project and its [...]

Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross platform rich Internet applications based on the proprietary Adobe Flash platform. The initial release in March 2004 by Macromedia included a software development kit, an IDE, and a J2EE integration application known as Flex Data Services. Since [...]

Step into Open Source

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate [...]