Posted in Library Tech on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
I guess this is really part of that whole groupware thread, but I got tired of keeping track of how many parts there were. It’s apparent to me that this thing may go on indefinitely. Moodle is a open source course management system that works pretty much the same as any other groupware system. It’s [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Jan 10th, 2005 No Comments »
It’s been nearly 3 months since I started this blog, and I haven’t really talked about Systems Librarianship — or anything librarian-ish, for that matter — nearly enough. This is mostly due to the nature of the work I’ve been doing recently, which has involved installing and testing and debugging web applications. It’s time to [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Jan 5th, 2005 No Comments »
I’ve now had the opportunity to install and attempt to integrate two open source PHP-based groupware systems (PHProjekt and phpGroupWare), and the verdict is not good. Although they mostly work as advertised within a limited operating environment, both systems have serious problems with stability, reliability, support, and documentation. It’s looking more likely that we will [...]