At Sirius we have recently started using and deploying Roundcube in favour of the tried and tested (but very old) Squirrelmail. Impressed by it's beautiful front-end, ease of use and obvious extensibility, Tom Callway spoke to Till Klampaeckel and Thomas...

The goals of this blog are to illustrate how to: authenticate Mac OSX Leopard workstations from an existing redundant OpenLDAP infrastructureconfigure Mac OSX Leopard workstations from an existing redundant OpenLDAP infrastructurestore and manage configuration settings on an existing redundant OpenLDAP...

The requirement for a new brochure last week got me tackling one of those periodic (and in my case instantly forgettable) gotchas - how to do I import EPS images into Inkscape? I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years but...

In the build up to the release of a series of benchmarking tests for network monitoring / management applications based on Open Source technologies, Tom Callway speaks to Tarus Balog, the CEO of the OpenNMS Group and current maintainer of...

An enterprise thrives or fails according to how well it does what it does. That much is, or should be, obvious. Inevitably, as they grow processes are put in place which seek to improve efficiency. In recent years with essentially...

At Sirius we've just completed the migration of our corporate website from Joomla! to Drupal. There are many discussions of the relative merits of Drupal and Joomla!, but we thought it would be interesting to discuss what we've learned. Joomla!...

One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is a large web application designed using MDA (Model-Driven Architecture). Now I confess that my Java experience lags at least a decade behind my C experience, but I feel that I’ve...

At Sirius we're fans of Request Tracker, which is excellent free software for running a help desk. One reasonably common question on the Request Tracker user's mailing list is "how do I make setting a subject mandatory when creating a...

In the build up to PGDay.EU 2009, an event which we're sponsoring, Tom Callway caught up with friend and colleague Dave Page to talk about the PostgreSQL project and how this somewhat unsung Open Source project is taking on the...

We've been getting to grips with Joomla! lately.Joomla! is a very popular open source content management system (CMS) with some great strengths. However, whilst an enormous amount of effort is being made to include enterprise-class features (like an ACL model...