If your in the market for a groupware solution I highly reccomend activeCollab. It’s free and Open Source and it’s got most of the beels and whistles the other free/pay hosted services offer. But the thing I like most is that it’s a downloadable/installable server software that I have control over. This me be a turn off to those with out web hosting but for $40 a year you can have a domain name and excelent shared hosting fron 1and1.com. At $40 it’s cheaper than the Personal account on Basecamp and still has more features.
A new version of activeCollab just came out (9/28) and it’s pretty darn good. I have compared activeCollab with Basecamp and ZohoProjects and for a free solution nither Basecamp nor Zoho can’t even compre.
Zoho is really nice though it’s well polished and very responsive but the free (beta) account is limited to one project and they are still working on a pricing scheme. That alone left me to question if I could justify hosting a Intellectual Property Project on a service that is beta and does not clearly state that I would have a free account for life. But that’s just me, paranoid.
Basecamp is nice but it’s just a glorified version of Backpackit and quite frankly not everyone like lists.
If you don’t have your own server I’d recommend Zoho for a parject with multi-people or for a Independent Contractor. But if you do have a server and know what you are doing then activeCollab is your answer. It’s free. It’s got tons of features and the community is growing.
This is a quick little tip on how to pass more than one Form Element to the Ajax.Updater function in Prototype.
This came about because I wanted to do a form POST and not a GET with several Form fields but the only documentation on the internet explained how to send ONE Form field.
It's very simple but it took me a while to really get it right.
Here is a snippet:
This code is using the Ajax.Updater to send a POST to a php page with 3 form fields to be processed. As an added tip I am sending my request to a page and I am using a URL Parameter to tell that page which function to run: myparam=save_item.
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I found this sweet Firefox Extension: FireFTP that works like a frickin charm. This extension may in fact get me to back into using Linux more because now that I have a nice alternative to use in Xubuntu aside from gFTP. (I haven't been using Linux as much lately due to my dislike of gFTP.) The thing that makes this a truly awesome is the fact that's is cross-platform. People always said that the browser is the killer app and that dream is being realized via Firefox.
This is page contains code snippets, links to tutorials and a list or RSS Parsers for PHP RSS Development.
RSS Parsers
Magpie
SimplePie
lastRSS
PEAR: XML_RSS
FeedCreator.class.php
RSSMix
RSS2Array
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Has anyone else seen this?
Another Web2.0 is closing it's doors.
I am only pointing this out because I was about to write a review of Collaboration services.
The Rallypoint team is sorry to say we will be shutting down within the next 15 days. This is a decision not easily made because we have grown quite attached to our community of users. Although we are proud to have come this far with the product, our personal obligations do not allow us to continue developing Rallypoint toward our ultimate vision.
This was posted on Sept 13, 2006 at their site.
Read More at Rallypoint.
A few days ago noticed that the Tag Suggestion functions in Ultimate Tag Warrior were no longer working. So I spent a few hours this week looking into the issue and came up with an alternative solution. UTW provides two Tag Suggestion options. One is from Yahoo and the other from Tagyu. The Yahoo service stopped working because it requires an AppID which I can only assume has either expired or has exceded is maximum number of requests and the Tagyu service stopped working because it has been shut down by the owner.
Well I really liked the Tag Suggestion service so I decided to either fix it in UTW or find an alternative. I fixed the Tagyu service by replacing it with a similar service from tagthe.net and this is what this document is about. But the fix for I the Yahoo service requires an AppID so by hacking the code (similar to the code below) and using my own Yahoo AppID I got the service running again.
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This is my first publicy released WordPress Plugin/Widget. This plugin reads a Writely RSS Feed and display the items in a Widget on your sidebar. It's based entirley on the RSS Feed Widget that comes with the WordPress Widgets Control but instead of just displaying the feed items I have modified it to remove the Introduction and Private items.
How It Works:
The Writely RSS Feed Widget will display a list of links of documents from Writely. If a user is either the owner or a collaborator they will see the document in edit mode other wise they will see the document in a read-only view mode.
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