AdamH.us

Okay, it didn’t really take a whole lot of thought… Just a matter of finding enough open source software to do everything we need to do. Here’s how it’s going to break down:

1. Slackware Linux on our test server (our production server already runs Linux)
2. Filezilla FTP client for FTP access (Filezilla server for Windows FTP)
3. GIMP/Paint.NET for graphics
4. OpenOffice.org for documents (uploaded to site as PDF)
5. Firefox Web Browser — that’s what we’ll be designing for
6. PHP programming — no ASP or other commercial language
7. SciTE for script editing (at least in Linux — in Windows I have a freeware)

Note: This is only what we’ll use for production of websites. This is what we’ll use as The Scripters. As web applications (such as blog or forum software) we’ll use open source applications for those applications that we don’t create ourselves (such as WordPress, phpBB, or osCommerce).

Much of this software will also be available on systems we build for clients. It’s going to be quite a process to complete this haul-over, but we’ve got to start somewhere.

Comments are welcome. If you have other suggestions, we’re fully open to them.

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As of June 23, 2006 (old, yes) TheScripters has released its project “Fan Fiction Portal” for development by any 3rd party. It is beta software, so don’t get your hopes too high. We were working on it for a fan site a while back, but it got to the point where we simply couldn’t do it. Mostly because of the lack of free time to do it. If you want it, you’re welcome to it.

You can click here to download (in ZIP-format, if need other tell us). As I said, it is beta. If you want to develop it yourself, let us know so we can take it off the site so you’ll be the only ones.

It is a simplistic, basic site. Comes with RSS feed, full configuration, etc. If you would like a full feature list or would like some insight into the inner workings, give us a buzz. You can email us at any time at contact@thescripters.com. Full disclaimer is included in the ZIP file. If you need forum space, let us know on that as well.

It’s old, but it doesn’t hurt to bring it out in the open once in a while.

Until next time…

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