Tag Archives: management

The joy of having a clean media library

I listen to a lot of different music and thus there have been quite a number of tracks accumulated over the past 15 years. A wacky 22’146 tracks to date. Keeping this enjoyable on a file-system level is almost impossible. One of the first things I did when I switched to Mac 5 years ago [...]

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Timetracking: Kimai

Kimai ist eine Opensource Timetracking-Suite in PHP mit MySQL. Sieht noch ganz nett aus und wird auch fleissig weiterentwickelt, im Gegensatz zu achievo. Im Vergleich zu den erst kuerzlich hier angesprochenen Alternativen (sidejobtrack, appmite) sind wir hierbei auch nicht auf einem fremden Server sondern haben alle Daten auf unserem eigenen Server. Ich habe mir das [...]

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Projektmanagement und Timetracking

Still ist es geworden um achievo. Scheinbar sind die developers ein bisschen überbeschäftigt. Seit knapp einem Jahr warten nun alle auf einen weiteren Release. Es ist definitiv Zeit sich für eine Alternative umzusehen. Für mich persönlich ist das schon seit längerem SideJobTrack, eine Applikation mit welcher die Zeiterfassung und Rechnungsstellung ganz einfach von der Hand [...]

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Achievo 1.2 rc1

Das flexible Projektmanagement Tool Achievo ist seit letzter Woche in Version 1.2 (release candidate 1) verfügbar. Das Theme zur neuen Version aus dem Hause genox ist in der Mache. Der erste Migrationsversuch von 1.1 verlief problemlos, es empfiehlt sich jedoch das changelog genau zu lesen (Änderungen an den security profiles). Bin gespannt auf die final [...]

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open source groupware: round three

i now tested the following tools, some of them together with my boss and my coworker: PHProjekt, eGroupWare, Group-Office, dotProject, openPSA, webCollab, netOffice, phpGroupware and Achievo. there is no really feature balanced solution around which has good project management approaches and a working implementation of a stable reporting module (except for openPSA, this one is [...]

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groupware, second round

i now spent 2 full days trying out phprojekt and dotproject. eGroupWare is not in the race anymore, since i can’t manage to install the new RC5 of version 1.2. unfortunately, the 1.x.x versions aren’t available to download anymore. i will let the users decide – they will test the two suites next week, click [...]

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web based groupware solutions

theoretically, we planned to switch to a new gw solution by the end of this year. this would be in 2 days if i do that math correctly. well, i guess i wont make it until february, despite the fact that all users need to get the handling straight before we start to professionalize on [...]

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actually productive meetings

do you know this feeling when you finish work and realize that today, you actually did more on this certain project than there was going on in the last 4 months? – well, today was one of those rare but very powerful and motivating days. i started rather late at 10am, went to the office [...]

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