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Archive for November, 2007

DesktopBSD day 21 - Planning and Project Management (II)

Yesterday I was enchanted with GanttProject and with that experience in mind I started playing with the three other project management applications.
Planner a.k.a. Project Management

The Planner website isn’t a treasure chest of information.
Planner is the GNOME project management tool.
That’s about all you can find about the application. It’s a typical GNOME application with a pretty [...]

Friday, November 30th, 2007

DesktopBSD day 20 - Planning and Project Management (I)

I have been involved in project management since the early days of my working career. I love the project management method and the way it helps me to organize complex tasks. All of the projects I have been involved in were of a non-technical, non-linear and -let’s say- chaotic nature. Deadlines? Yes. Milestone? Sure. Logical [...]

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

DesktopBSD day 19 - Evolution

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” wrote Rudyard Kipling. Fortunately Bob Dylan also sings to us that “the times they are a-changin”, which means that divides can be crossed with the right kind of bridges. In this case, East is KDE and West is GNOME (or the other [...]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

DesktopBSD day 18 - Exploring Kontact

On day 16 I was pleasantly surprised by KMail and it’s import options for e-mail boxes. This isn’t the first time I looked at Kontact and it’s components, but I decided to dig a little deeper and answer the question whether Kontact is a good personal information manager for novice DesktopBSD users.

What is the idea [...]

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

NaNoWriMo - I made the 50.000

Another challenge of life finished. It was fun to push myself to writing 50.000 words over a period of one month. With a few days to spare I finally crossed the 50.000 words barrier today. The basic idea is that you just keep writing and not allow yourself to be stopped by a writers’ block [...]

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007