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Open Source

• 09.10.08
  Making a Social Music Site in Drupal, Part II   Open Source, Projects (2)

  At the end of Part I, we had decided on Drupal as the CMS of choice for Rifflet.com, a site where users can upload and share unfinished music they’ve recorded. Here’s where the problems started:

  I initially installed Drupal 6.2 because GoDaddy, our hosting company, offered it as part of their 1-Click installation program.  If you’re [...]

• 06.11.08
  Handle Your Business, All Open-Sourcey Style   Open Source (1)

  We’ve been looking for an online substitute for Quickbooks for some time now, mostly because we run our business off of three computers and the one that has all the invoice info. always seems to be the one that’s 1) farthest away and 2) not turned on. Here’s a great list of online invoicing [...]

• 05.16.08
  Making a Social Music Site in Drupal, Part I   Open Source, Projects (9)

  I had an idea for a website the other day: I play the guitar, and I have a terrible memory. So, when I come up with a song idea, I usually record it on the computer before I forget it. I assume I’m not alone, and a lot of other people have a bunch [...]

• 02.15.08
  Opcion: Open Source Font Viewer   Open Source (0)

  I‘m kind of a font-whore, and as such, it takes me about a year to go through all of them one by one. There seem to be a lot of crappy font managing programs out there, but here’s one that seems a little better: Opcion Font Viewer, written by Paul Chiu. Opcion’s best quality [...]

• 12.18.07
  Make a client login area with AjaxExplorer   Open Source (4)

  Here’s a good way to make an easy client login system: AjaxExplorer. AjaxExplorer is designed to be an FTP/file management system; upload it to your server, run the install script, and you can browse files (screenshot) just like they’re on your computer, as if you were in some sort of windows-based file-exploring-software-program.
  The thing that make [...]

• 11.09.07
  the internet’s broke   Open Source (0)

  We’re a little slow getting our Open-Source reviews off the ground, due to a problem with our Godaddy Hosting Account that won’t let us make any new MySQL databases. I don’t know what the crap that means, but it means we can’t install any new programs on the server until it gets fixed. They do [...]

• 11.06.07
  Open Source Reviews - Before You Complain   Open Source (0)

  So here’s the disclaimer for our new Open-Source Reviews section, where we make some first-impression comments on open-source web design applications:

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