Posts Tagged Open Source
Opencart simple and great e-commerce system
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source on August 5th, 2010
For a long time I have been very frustrated with e-commerce systems, from my self built one all the way to Magento. That was until I came across OpenCart. It’s a great system, easy to use and to develop for. Installation takes 5 minutes, it has all the modules you need to run a successful [...]
PHP-GTK is still live
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source on July 25th, 2009
PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications. PHP-GTK is one of those great resources that for some unclear reason hasn’t become mainstream. One would think that standalone applications created [...]
OpenSuse Factory
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Linux on June 20th, 2009
On June 18th 2009 The OpenSuse Project announced that its development factory has been made more accessible to package contributors. Joe Brockmeier’s post at opensuseNews states… ”we’re making it easier for contributors to take responsibility for packages and to contribute directly to openSUSE. This means contributors will be able to be directly responsible for packages, [...]
SwitchVox IP PBX
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source, Servers on June 3rd, 2009
Switchvox is Digium’s family of Voice Over IP Phone systems for small and medium businesses. Switchvox systems are designed to be easy to use, full of helpful features and cost less than a traditional PBX. It’s based on the world’s leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit Asterisk. Bookmark on Delicious Digg [...]
Mozilla FENNEC – the Firefox gone mobile
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source on May 21st, 2009
Bringing Firefox‘s features, security, performance and ease-of-use to mobile phones. Fennec is yet in it’s Beta 1 version, it has been built on the same technology as the world famous Mozilla Firefox and has many of the same features. Tabbed browsing One-click bookmarking Super easy navigation Add-on ons (Firefox style) touch-enabled interfaced optimized for the [...]
Google Android OS on Notebooks
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux, Mobile Phones, Open Source on January 9th, 2009
A developer team on venturebeat.com has reported that they can get Google’s Android to run on netbooks. Long before Andoid was released there were rumors about its use not being restric to mobiles. The Venturabeast team claim to have made it work on a EeePC 1000h within 4 hours as reported by the Linux Magazine [...]
Linux a success and a failure
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Linux on December 9th, 2008
Interesting how contrasting the world of Linux can be. As an OpenSource (Free) and reliable operating system it should appeal to anyone, specially those in the developing world, one would naively think. Don’t get me wrong, Linux has a great success rate in Latin America, in Brazil alone it has become a real contender to [...]
