Trent Richardson

practical web design & development

Archive for July, 2008

Recent Eclipse Dissapointments

I have to admit, I love programming with cfeclipse and aptana. Together they cover about every area of web programming with coldfusion. But as of late I have been a little let down. I’m not quite sure if its a plugin issue, eclipse issue, or what. Eclipse loves to throw me [...]

Ubuntu – Startling Bug, Must Fix

There has been a very startling and disturbing bug within Ubuntu bug tracker. Please help the team out if you can.

28 Ways to Reuse a Plastic Drink Bottle

Well from time to time I like to mix it up here on the blog. Today I would like to discuss an eco friendly topic since we all want to go green these days. Everyone from time to time have plastic drink bottles lying around. Instead of throwing them away there are [...]

5 Reasons Open Source Hurts Business

In the first post of this two part series I gave a few examples of how open source helps business. Just to balance things out, lets examine a few ways Open Source software hurts the business model:

Open Source hurt competitive companies who follow a more traditional business model; Create a product, Sell the product. [...]

5 Reasons Open Source Helps Business

Open Source has been a major player in the evolution of software for years. Had it not been for projects like Linux and PHP (among many others) computing would still be back in the early 90’s. Luckily this phenomenon has revolutionized the way we go about business. To counter this argument I [...]