I've been catching up on the latest happenings in the open source / RIA world. In the recent past Adobe has released their project Apollo as Adobe AIR. They have also open sourced their framework Flex to create applications for AIR. From what I've read, it seems to be getting fairly good reviews for the platform and the direction in which its headed.
There are a couple of articles which talk about using a PHP backend and a FLEX frontend.
I just added CiviCRM to CIA.vc. CIA.vc integrates your svn repository commits and your IRC channel. It also creates a web page of your svn commits. The CiviCRM CIA.vc page can be found here. Interesting to compare this page with similar information from the Ohloh CiviCRM page.
Last two weeks I've spent in San Francisco, catching up on face to face conversations with CiviCRM Team members, meeting friends and attending eAdvocacy Jamboree 2007. Working in a distributed software development team and connecting with most of your users remotely gets sometimes hard, but fortunately there are those rare moments when you can at least partially catch up on meeting real people instead of interacting with your Skype contacts.
Here's a snippet of the 1.8 beta release announcement. The complete announcement is here
We are excited to announce that our 1.8 Beta release is now available for download, as well as testing on our demo site. We rely on our dedicated users (that’s you) to install and test the beta in order to make sure we have a quality final release.
We are making pretty good progress towards a 1.8 beta release. A late breaking forum post revealed some bugs with the sql upgrade script. Once we are done with testing that issue, we should be pretty close to announcing a beta candidate for 1.8.
Reporting is a complex issue. To make life easier we decide to support an open source reporting package BIRT from Eclipse. BIRT is definitely quite an impressive package with a great feature set and we are quite glad to have chosen it.
For the last six months, I've been working on a system called CiviVoter, which is a component of CiviCRM that manages a voter file (the kind you get from your local registrar of voters here in the US) and imports it into CiviCRM.
