Infonomix

Infonomix has been dormant a bit since the spin off of Nextoclock, and the refocus to only project management.

Behind the scenes I've been doing a lot of planning for Infonomix, and as a hint, the new direction is towards public access and open publishing. Infonomix will ultimately include a publishing platform for project management information!

After trying out Hermes to compare with Nextoclock, I decided to try Chora, the web based repository browser from Horde, and it is just as nice. Its easy to install on debian, so that's a big bonus. I had one gotcha - the default sourceroots.php file includes some examples, but they don't work out of the box (ie * Error SourceRoot not found! ). I created a local repository and it worked fine. :-)

Now... can Infonomix and Chora play nicely together?

I haven't forgotten about Infonomix, but I've been working a lot on Nextoclock lately. Its was split off from Infonomix, and both are coming along nicely.2009 will be a quality year for Nextoclock.

Its been awhile since I've done any work on Infonomix, but I'll be back at it soon. I still need to clarify the separation of time tracking and project management, which is the last thing I worked on here.

I'm still using an old version of Infonomix everyday in my work, and I'm hoping to upgrade it to the latest version soon, but there is still a bunch of work to do. Thanks for your patience and continued interest!

Things with Infonomix are chugging right along - I've been doing a bunch of code maintenance lately, a lot having to do with the code split, and some having to do with better management of node-sets in the XSL files.

So what else is new? Well I'm getting very excited about the possibility of running Infonomix and related applications on more than one application engine. It would be very cool to be able to run Infonomix on PHP, perl, Python, tcl, and even ruby.

Since Infonomix is mostly written in XSL, XML, and SQL, porting shouldn't be too difficult!

One major factor behind this effort is that the subversion bindings for PHP aren't available in the debian repositories. I have a feeling its due to a licensing conflict between PHP and subversion, like the issue with PHP and Readline.