Until I started graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I had never heard of open source. However, every computer science department of any age and stature…
The Joomla! community, inside and outside the company, is diverse and multi-cultural. It is made up of all sorts of people with two things in common: a love for Joomla! and a…
When you walk into the cavernous, old tire plant of Canal Place in Akron, Ohio, the last thing that you'd expect to find in this big building is such a "tiny" treasure…
In proprietary software, the company contributes 100% of the code. If you think about a traditional proprietary software product, it has a development community of one: the…
In a recent article on Opensource.com, I introduced Data Geekery, the company behind jOOQ, and talked about the challenges we faced when transitioning our products from open…
True story. A project team was in need of an open source tool. Following their company's policy, the team requested their Information Systems (IS) department download the tool…