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).

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.

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 first article of a series tagged “opensource”: let’s start!

Richard Stallman Vision, based on GNU open source idea, is too radical from our point of view.

Stallman GNU License is based on a “copyleft” idea, which gives everyone the freedom to look at others’work, without taking credits for it. The license vision is very strict, so consulting is the natural option for an IT business based on GNU software, which is drived by Univestities, because of its basic freedom statement. Closed and paid software is still widely used, but open source is the key for the next revolution; let’see why.

(Updated on 2014,2018) Programma suggerito del percorso formativo:

1. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) & Java
   • Hollywood Principle, "don't call us, we'll call you".
   • Struts 1.2 e succ
   • Hibernate, speed intro.
2. Consulenza
   • Articolo: Customers Don't Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want.
3. Design Patterns e modellazione
   • CRC Cards
   • Wikipedia definition
4. ToolBox as a plus:
   1. JUnit e HttpUnit Cookbook
   2. Regular Expressions Esempio animato Editor per esercitarsi
   3. Linux Filosofia alla base di Unix, da "The Art of Unix Programming" di Eric Steven Raymond
   4. Linguaggio open a scelta, diverso da Java: Python, Perl o Ruby Cosa provare: RubyOnRails, GoogleAPI in python, librerie CPAN del Perl
5. Approfondimenti
   • Esempio di  project management semplificato.
   • Bug Tracing Tools.
   • eBay: esempio di progettazione scalabile
   • La cattedrale e il bazaar di E.Raymond. Versione originale.
   • Net Cat.