Trac is a quite famous bug tracking software written in python.

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In un articolo del corriere della sera del 19 novembre 2008, leggiamo un inciso che dà un’idea della crisi in atto. Si riporta una discorso del ministro del Tesoro Henry Paulson (grassetto nostro):

Paulson [...] ha spiegato che, anche se la crisi rimane grave, non è cosa da poco che il sistema sia sopravvissuto a una spaventosa distruzione di ricchezza. Ed ha fornito un dato impressionante: le istituzioni che nei mesi scorsi «sono fallite o hanno vissuto una situazione che equivale a un fallimento», e cioè Bear Stearns, IndyMac, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac e il colosso assicurativo Aig, all' inizio del 2008 avevano un patrimonio complessivo di 4,7 trilioni di dollari: una cifra pari a due volte e mezzo il Prodotto interni lordo dell' Italia. Una ricchezza andata quasi completamente in fumo.
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A Gioorgi.com ci occupiamo di software da molto tempo. Giovanni Giorgi respira il software dalla metà degli anni ottanta,  quando il Vic 20 fu commercializzato in Italia (abbiamo trovato molti dettagli sul nome e la storia del VIC-20, ma la fonte più attendibili è sempre wikipedia).

Dopo così tanto tempo, possiamo affermare uno dei principi fondamentali che qualsiasi persona si occupi di software deve tenere a mente.

Non importa se siete account, ingegneri, responsabili di marketing o semplici sviluppatori junior. Dovete sempre tenere a mente che il software che producete deve essere facile.

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Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source:

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As we have seen, bug tracking tools are a very important piece of your It infrastructure. Some tools aims to be a storing ticketing system (like Remedy), others a simple bug tracking tool.  In this second post we are going to analyze one of them, called FogBugz

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We read and report:

Tonight, to clear up some problems with the packaging of the Django 1.0.1 release from Friday, we've released Django 1.0.2; once again, this is a bugfix-only release, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone targeting or using Django 1.0 or Django 1.0.1.

Weblog entry announcing the release is here: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/nov/18/102/ Release notes are here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0.2/

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At Gioorgi.com, after working with a lot with software for over twenty years,  we have envisioned a clear idea about open source. This is the second article of a series tagged “opensource”: the previous one is Open Source for the infrastructure; in such article we started to do some tiny consideration of the destiny of big closed huge framework. Things are getting bigger and bigger, and maintaining big code library is a high cost for software house

In the 2008, when I look at software I ask only a thing: to be simple. Embarrassingly simple. The success of Mac stuff (like ipods, macosx and so on) is based vastly on simple design of ready to use, not annoying stuff.

For this reason, the software is not anymore the focus. Core software should be open source: things like word process are not the future of the business. Things like FaceBook are the future of business.

What you try to sell is your GUI design experience (see things like FogBugz or Wordpress), your networking idea (like Facebook), your focus on search agents (like Google, because too much information is useless by definition).

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Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops

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In the previous article we introduced the reader to the bug tracking tools.

In this article we will analyze Mantis, an open source bug tracking tool It is very important to stress you are going to use much more time to set up an open source bug tracking tool. A fraction of this time is for setting it up, but the vast majority of your time will be spent setting it up, customizing it and recovering information on it.

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