facti.net

My technical sharing site's Content Management System (CMS) has been switched over to Drupal and it's new name: facti.net.  Facti is latin for fact, e.g. "Quid facti" = a question of fact.

This is for tracking the best free software I have found. The amount of excellent free software is staggering and the growth seems to be accelerating. In order to try and make it manageable I've organized this into a book with a taxonomy that lets you see it as a list. The software is divided by category in the child pages listed below.  The idea behind this categorization is to answer the question "what is the best free software for ...".

In order to make it browsable the categorization starts at a very high-level (Desktop, Server, Network, etc.) and gets progressively more detailed. If you are wondering where to start, you most likely want to look at the Desktop related software. If you just want to see all of it in a list, click here.

The software information is kept in a book format. If you are not already looking at the book entry (where you see the sub-pages) then click here to access the book.

This entry is a test of the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). WordPress has some limitations dealing with things outside of blogs (such as static pages showing up in the search results, dealing with different content types, etc) that drupal does not have. With the addition of certain plugins (such as tinyMCE for editing) drupal seems to work quite well. Thanks to Paul Bryan for the tips on drupal.

The documentation available for Alfresco configuration customization is very bad - both confusing and contradictory. This may be due to the confusion between vesions. The Alfresco Wiki appears to suggest to modify the working location created by JBoss - a very bad idea since that will disappear under some circumstances, taking your customizations with it.

I noticed the google bot making targeted queries against the Lexicon I built. The Lexicon is a J2EE application that interacts with a language database I am building and populating from many data sources.