Reuven Lerner has a good post over on OStatic about how Open Source’s strength is in integrating with other systems, even legacy and proprietary system.
Of course, integrating Open Source with other Open Source apps is easiest, IMO, even if the documentation isn’t the best.  In my experience, the documentation for Open Source is usually better [...]

Last night’s ABE Perl Mongers’ meeting was fun; rjbs set up git on a virtual machine on his Macbook and we hacked an IRC game he has been working on. The purpose of the meeting wasn’t to hack the game (which was fun and reading rjbs’ code is usually enlightening) but to show off git. [...]

I really like automating processes and Open Source software is great for that. Here is one such incident.
Background: when you are managing other peoples’ stock portfolios, you don’t just login to E*Trade as them and buy/sell stocks. You trade the stocks through a trading system (like E*Trade but there are many others), the trading [...]