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Roundcube: the world's coolest Open Source webmail project?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:12:46 GMT

At Sirius we have recently started using and deploying Roundcube in favour of the tried and tested (but very old) Squirrelmail. Impressed by it's beautiful front-end, ease of use and obvious extensibility, Tom Callway spoke to Till Klampaeckel and Thomas...

OSX and OpenLDAP: taming the Leopard

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:59:53 GMT

The goals of this blog are to illustrate how to: authenticate Mac OSX Leopard workstations from an existing redundant OpenLDAP infrastructureconfigure Mac OSX Leopard workstations from an existing redundant OpenLDAP infrastructurestore and manage configuration settings on an existing redundant OpenLDAP...

Karmic Koala polish fixes EPS support issues in Inkscape

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:18:29 GMT

The requirement for a new brochure last week got me tackling one of those periodic (and in my case instantly forgettable) gotchas - how to do I import EPS images into Inkscape? I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years but...

OpenNMS: Enterprise Network Management Revealed

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:29:13 GMT

In the build up to the release of a series of benchmarking tests for network monitoring / management applications based on Open Source technologies, Tom Callway speaks to Tarus Balog, the CEO of the OpenNMS Group and current maintainer of...

OpenERP: an introduction to Open Source ERP

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:12:17 GMT

An enterprise thrives or fails according to how well it does what it does. That much is, or should be, obvious. Inevitably, as they grow processes are put in place which seek to improve efficiency. In recent years with essentially...

Why we moved to Drupal

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:45:03 GMT

At Sirius we've just completed the migration of our corporate website from Joomla! to Drupal. There are many discussions of the relative merits of Drupal and Joomla!, but we thought it would be interesting to discuss what we've learned. Joomla!...

Is AndroMDA/MagicDraw a viable combination for open source projects?

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:28:54 GMT

One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is a large web application designed using MDA (Model-Driven Architecture). Now I confess that my Java experience lags at least a decade behind my C experience, but I feel that I’ve...

Simple Request Tracker customisations using callbacks

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:12:42 GMT

At Sirius we're fans of Request Tracker, which is excellent free software for running a help desk. One reasonably common question on the Request Tracker user's mailing list is "how do I make setting a subject mandatory when creating a...

Dave Page on PostgreSQL and PGDay.EU 2009

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:49:38 GMT

In the build up to PGDay.EU 2009, an event which we're sponsoring, Tom Callway caught up with friend and colleague Dave Page to talk about the PostgreSQL project and how this somewhat unsung Open Source project is taking on the...

Making content with Joomla!

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:00:05 GMT

We've been getting to grips with Joomla! lately.Joomla! is a very popular open source content management system (CMS) with some great strengths. However, whilst an enormous amount of effort is being made to include enterprise-class features (like an ACL model...