Packt Open Source Awards and some reflections on CMSes

Packt Publishing, a fairly known technical book publisher is organizing an Open Source Awards contest. Some of the categories are interesting like mobile toolkit and libraries, business applications (always tough for OSS software), Javascript libs and multimedia. It’s funny to see the categories evolve over time. Back in my days, it used to be … [...]

From a Bug blooms a thousand Features

When a severe bug hits a product, you have to fix and release quickly (at least I feel I have to). But, especially in the beta phase, it’s fairly humiliating to release with one single ticket resolution.Call it pride, pair pressure, ego, unwillingness to face reality, teenager knee jerk, I just can’t release a … [...]

Licensing and trademark

There has been lots of turmoils last week on two not so related subjects. Let’s clarify them a bit.LGPL rights and dutyLot’s have been said about this license, and lot’s of people out there don’t understand the rights and duty of this license.GoalFrom the GNU LGPL Preambule:The licenses for most software are designed to … [...]