There is no doubt that online collaboration technology has got better in the last twenty years. But has that resulted in more collaboration? Certainly, it looks like people spend more time hanging out online, but is the technology itself what makes the difference? I have seen enough instances of “build it, and they do not come” to know it is not. No matter how awesome your technology is, it does not make people collaborate. What does then? Here’s how I think about it.

We are absolutely thrilled by today's announcement from the Minister of Commerce, Simon Power, stating unequivocally that the Patents Bill will explicitly exclude software patents.

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GroupServer is a web-based open source web-based mailing list manager developed by OnlineGroups.Net. If you know OnlineGroups.Net, you’ll know that GroupServer is its engine. For that reason, we’re pretty excited to be able to call GroupServer “1.0?”, and to make it available for free download.

It is quite possible to run Nagios3’s web interface directly from Nginx and a FastCGI server, rather than having to involve a web application server like Apache. This is useful if you want to preserve memory on your machine, for example.

First of all, we ask Nginx to serve the static files for the Nagios web interface. In Debian/Ubuntu, these live in /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs and /usr/share/nagios3/stylesheets, which is a little awkward, but just the sort of thing that the rewrite command is for …

If you have a FastCGI service running, normally you just talk to it through the front-end web server. However, for testing purposes you should send requests directly to the fastcgi server.

Consider the devices that we use to interact with the Web. Most of the time we use a mouse, keyboard and screen. Sometimes we use small touch-sensitive screens on a phone. Our notebook computers usually have smallish screens. Sometimes we view the Web on large or very large screens. Or use completely different devices like the iPad and video game consoles.

There is an extremely wide range of devices and screen resolutions that we regularly use to interact with the Web.

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