Monthly Archives: October 2008

Blog Action Day 15th October 2008

October 15, 2008 – 1:16 am

October 15th 2008 is Blog Action Day. I have posted a blog entry for Blog Action day here http://philipoakley.org/?p=140

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Can OpenOffice.org 3.0 change the world?

October 13, 2008 – 1:29 pm

Every day it seams a new version of someones favourite software is released somegreatphotosoftware version 5.5.5 or thebestmusicplayer version 1,1,01. Little excitement is seen around the world except by the group fanboys and girls of that product waiting for the latest and greatest, checking the new features list for whistles and bells like children crossing [...]

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Openbravo ERP release version 2.4

October 10, 2008 – 11:28 pm

Hot on the heels of Compiere’s recent new release the ever popular Openbravo has released version 2.4 promising improvements in the user interface. Openbravo is already a very pretty web based product but any improvements to usability of the web interface can only benefit users and help adoption. Keyboard operations and shortcuts have been introduced [...]

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CiviCRM – Open Source Web Based Management for Non Profits and Associations

October 2, 2008 – 6:35 am

The use of the latest web technologies by American politicians is now reasonably common place with sites such as Facebook and the the use of Twitter in the Presidential Campaign http://election.twitter.com/ but probably not so well known was that back in 2004 Howard Dean pioneered political donations on the internet using open source software. The [...]

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