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🕑May 24, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

What's a Wiki?

If you haven't paid attention, the World Wide Web has been changing dramatically over the past few years. It used to be that if you wanted to create a web site, you either had to learn the basics of HTML, or spend a few hundred dollars on a web development tool. Or hire a designer to put one together for you.

Every time you want to add new content to your web site, you'd have to go back to your tools, add a new page, update all of the site navigation, or pay another fee to your web designer.

Those days are history. Thanks to a variety of different content management systems, you can easily add new content to your web site with no technical knowledge whatsoever.

🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

How Linux Could Overthrow Microsoft

Interesting article about the open source and free software movements in the MIT Technology Review. While the author generalizes a little bit too much, he makes some interesting arguments.

🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

Clearing the Active Directory hurdle

Can you tell I have posts stacked up to write? Taking a bit today to post some links I've stumbled across in the past few weeks.

🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬2

Software Project Management Tool: Trac

Stumbled across this project management system recently, an open source web-based system called Trac. Developed by Edgewall Software, Trac is a Wiki-based system complete with task management, bug tracking, and milestone tracking.

🕑May 14, 2005 🖋John Locke 💬0

Thought Thieves, patents, and free tv

Maybe Orwell wasn't so far off after all. Microsoft UK has recently started a marketing campaign that is straight out of 1984: Thought Thieves. This would be hilarious if they were joking. They're not.