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Ubuntu awesomeness - Unity integrated time-tracking

We are using Ubuntu as our operating system since we started out with Fusonic in 2005. We were involved in the evolution of Ubuntu for a very long time now. We want to give you an insight on how well Ubuntu integrates into our daily business tasks with an example: our timetracking application.

How to: Compress image with trimage

There are lots of reasons to save file size, especially on the mobile web. More space and less traffic on the server. Speed up page rendering and limited bandwidth on the client. But there is a tool to get rid of that problem: trimage - it is free and helps to reduce image size a lot (over 25 % in our tests without loose of quality)! trimage bundles a bunch of image compression libraries, compresses the image and chooses the best result. Currently supporting PNG and JPEG.

Chive 1.1 released - with PHAR package

I'm happy to announce the release of Chive 1.1, our powerful open-source web-based solution for MySQL database administration. Chive 1.1 is a major release with some very exciting new features.

Simplified PHP Spreadsheet / Excel Export

Three years ago I was pleased to announce SpreadsheetExport 0.1.0 by Fusonic - an open-source PHP library provided by Fusonic. Its purpose was to enable PHP developers to export spreadsheet-like data to various file formats while only writing their export logic once. You need to implement some kind of spreadsheet export in nearly every application - so did we in our Social Intranet Solution. Problem…

Chive 1.0 released!

I'm pleased to announce the release of chive 1.0! Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool, designed to bring joy to web developers - with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. Our mission is to bring joy to web developers - every part in chive is optimized to speed so that web-developers can achieve any tasks easily and super-fast -…

Chive 0.5.1 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of chive 0.5.0 / 0.5.1, a next generation mysql-management software which brings joy to web developers. Since the last release of the 0.4 series we fixed 11 Bugs including some nice improvements. Some Key changes are: - Improved import - Improved search+edit handling - Submit SQL-Query with CTRL+Enter + visual feedback Fixed Bugs in chive 0.5 ________ #793918…

Scripting Asp.net MVC Controllers at Runtime

An Asp.net MVC 2 ControllerFactory including some classes which allows you to edit your Controller classes at runtime, without restarting your application. You can add controllers, actions and classes during your web-app life cycle and just need to refresh your browser. This can be very useful when you are prototyping new features.

Announcing Chive 0.4 - the next-gen MySQL-Admin

I'm pleased to announce the release of chive 0.4. This release marks an important step in terms of stability of chive. Since the last release of the 0.3 series in April we fixed 33 Bugs including some minor improvements. Some Key changes are: - CSV-Export implemented - Chive works now in PHP 5 Development modes (E_ALL | E_STRICT) - Blob Handling improved - Huge performance improvements…