[thelist] [Slightly OT]Issue tracking *and* project management
marcus
m-lists at bristav.se
Thu Dec 8 22:07:20 CST 2005
Jan Brasna wrote:
> Tweaking an OS solution? Some groupware bundles have these features or
> the ability to have them developed as a plug-in.
>
Open source is absolutely no problem. We like OSS very much actually. Do
you have anything special in mind?
As long as it's not PHP or ASP. We've tweaked a couple of PHP
applications UI wise and added some functionality as well and it's been
a horror due to really really really ugly code (Squirrel Mail and
Achievo being a couple of examples).
Also remember that it should have a slick and polished look-n-feel (Jira
and Basecamp are two good examples of this). My experience is that many
OS solutions doesn't :(, they usually only focus on good functionality.
Sometimes they try to look nice but then it's often a programmer trying
to make it look nice and we all know how that usually goes ;) (I'm a
programmer myself...)
/Marcus
Ps. I'm not that into PHP so I can't say if it depends on PHP itself or
if it's bad programmers but the language kind of invites to ugly code
(in the older versions of PHP anyway). Many people would probably react
to this and say that "you can write bad code in any language as well as
you can write good code in any language". That's true. But some
languages (such as Ruby (and ecmascript if you have taken the time to
really learn the language)) invites to writing beatiful code and some
doesn't.
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