Articles by Rod Cope
Rod Cope
Rod is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic. He's been in open source since, well - since before it was even called open source. With 20 years experience developing enterprise software solutions, Rod has provided technical leadership on significant projects for companies such as GE, IBM, Anthem, Ericsson, Ford, Goodyear, Integral, CourseNet, and Digital Thoughts. He's a Sun Certified Java Architect and has won the JavaOne Conference Rock Star award not once, not twice - but three times. He presents at conferences around the world including the Open Source Business Conference, OSCON and others. You may have guessed that Rod works a lot, and you'd be right - but when he's not working, you might find him hiking in Telluride with his wife Neeta, Misha the giant beagle, and a Vizsla named Bowie.
If you need fast indexing and searching, especially if you’re doing Ruby on Rails development, Ferret is worth checking out. But there’s one funky thing that we’ve come across lately and wanted to share — something that works well when running in development mode but that causes bizarre issues in production mode.
There are many open source reporting tools readily available for companies to deploy to their business users today. Most of them, however, do not provide hard core corporate features such as multiple user support, integration with existing security mechanisms, ad hoc visual reporting tools, scheduling facilities, and the like. This comparison will briefly examine some [...]