About
I’m a developer living on the east coast of Australia. My blog is an online source for topics ranging from running an open source project to the challenges faced providing that software as an online service.
In 2000 when I completed my university degree I worked for the now defunct Distributed Systems Technology Center. It became clear that they needed a framework for managing all their projects to allow communication and collaboration.
After spending some time contracting in London a good friend of mine asked me to help him setup a bug tracking service for his cvs hosting service. Things didn’t work out and he went on to do great things providing commercial hosting of existing open source software cvs, trac, bugzilla and Subversion.
None of the open source systems at the time supported a SourceForge style community project hosting model which so I built a system that a company could use to manage *all* their projects that had a focus on communication and collaboration. In March 2004 I started providing commercial hosting of that software at Projxpert.com.
The experience building the software and the business led me to realize that I should release it as an open source application. In March 2006 the open source project “SharpForge” was born. SharpForge has now been self hosting at the open source project hosting website http://sharpforge.org for 4 months.
