<![CDATA[Sven Edge : Activity]]> Elgg http://eduspaces.net/sven/ <![CDATA[]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/158581.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/158581.html Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:32:30 GMT
Let's run with this. I can install and customize it. It's open-source so we can't beat the price.
What do you think?
]]> <![CDATA[for the love of christ..]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/156981.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/156981.html Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:32:46 GMT http://terrychay.com/blog/article/my-data-in-a-box.shtml#mor]]> <![CDATA[]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/154757.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/154757.html Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:30:37 GMT google bomb elgg is for people's names. :D]]> <![CDATA[It's *so* hard having 2 1280 monitors!]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/152661.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/152661.html Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:16:56 GMT synergy at work, which already behaves that way. Sitting coding at home today I finally got sick of pressing ctrl-r to refresh the web browser on the second screen, to find i'd launched search-and-replace on the still-focused text editor on the first screen..

I'm also not used to 1280x1024 resolution any more. my laptop's 1680x1050, and my work computers are 1680 and 1440 iirc. Even with my text editor font at 8pt, it feels like i can't get a decent overview of the code. Sadly I can't really justify buying new higher-res ones, especially given how rarely i actually sit at my desk at home.

Still, using two 1280 monitors still feels more productive than just working on my 1680 laptop. not that my laptop isn't on my desk as well, currently linked in with synergy as a third screen. *cough* just as it normally is at work. *cough*]]> <![CDATA[Code visualisation]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/152445.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/152445.html Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:18:29 GMT this. Textual analysis output and runtime profiling is all well and good, but I'm a visual person. I want pretty pictures.

Perhaps I should name my firstborn Node. :>]]> <![CDATA[Reason not to go to the US #395757?]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/151654.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/151654.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:52:39 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/05/immigration_search/

also, ouch.]]> <![CDATA[Converting Maildir to mbox...]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/151227.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/151227.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:17:47 GMT
Anyway, of the 4 scripts I tried (1 in bash, 1 bash+executable, 1 php and 1 python), the only one that worked was this one: http://yergler.net/Maildir_to_Mbox]]> <![CDATA[Issue trackers]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/148725.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/148725.html Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:19:53 GMT
The requirements are slightly different, in that aiui the Scran one will be used as a full bug tracker, as well as for keeping track of incoming feedback, data corrections, and whatnot, whereas Elgg/Curverider already uses sourceforge for bug tracking, and the issue tracker would purely be to stop incoming email getting buried in any one person's mailbox.

Other than that, the technical requirements are open source, written in php or at least perl or python (java makes servers cry), and using mysql as the backend. There are some online services that do similar things, but we want something we can control/customise and *cough* not pay for. (I'm not dave, so i won't go off on an elggspaces plugging tangent here ;)

For seemingly asking so little, finding something suitable is a right arse.

There are lots of trackers that are good bug trackers, but either don't integrate with email at all or aren't set up to present the issue as a human conversation rather than mainly a bunch of version-number/bug-report-rejected type flags (bugzilla, mantis, trac, etc). Then there are the full-blown CRM packages, which are many and varied and almost certainly OTT, as we're not trying to keep track of whether our Denver sales team is meeting its sprocket sales targets, or whether customer X has had a backrub lately. In the middle seem to be precious few apps.

I've looked at OTRS, and despite being fairly powerful, the interface has all sorts of brick walls to run into, where things that seem really basic to me haven't been implemented, or have been done "wrong". In some cases it's too powerful for its own good, and gets its knickers in a twist. Ben's reaction was "its ease of use on first look is through the floor".

I've just about installed RT3. Christ, dependencies much? Anyway. Haven't actually tried it yet, but after the effort of hammering it into the server, I need a rest. Time for some caffeine.

Eventum is welcomingly PHP, but at first glance looks more bug-trackery, but might be worth a poke.

Looking at this list on Wikipedia, once you take out the proprietary and windows-only software, not much is left. And without having ever run Zope, it smells of "we can't possibly use python without turning it into a bloated java-style elephant".

OMG look I liek totally reflected.]]> <![CDATA[Wikipedia, part 2]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/147709.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/147709.html Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:57:20 GMT <![CDATA[Wikipedia]]> http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/147187.html http://eduspaces.net/sven/weblog/147187.html Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:40:34 GMT wikipedia article on Scran, I noticed Elgg didn't have an article, so a little cribbing from wordpress and drupal's articles later, here's a very basic start.

However, I suck at writing, so if anyone else feels like it... :)]]>