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I blog about everything related to design and development. Anything I find that is cool, useful or interesting. Being passionate about what I do, and I’m constantly looking to create and learn new things. I’m always on the lookout for new techniques and technologies that will allow me to grow and stay on top of an every changing market, and they are all here for me to share with you.

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Managing Projects

After doing a few freelance projects here and there and working with some colleagues, I realized that I needed a system to help me track and manage my projects. I had looked around and found that there are several options out there. Some more popular than others. Some are free, and other are not. There is Basecamp, and there also activecollab to name a few. They both  have cool features but both come with a price. For Basecamp you can get a free account but you don’t get all the goodies and you are limited to just a few projects. AcitveCollab does not offer a free version and is quite pricy.

After looking around and searching for other options, I stumbled up on ProjectPier. At first glance it didn’t look like much but after looking in into it some more I realized it had some potential. First off, it had a lot of similar features to the some of the other ones I had looked at. Another thing I liked was the fact that it was open source and that I was able to download and install it on my server and not have to redirect clients to another site. The skin or theme can be fully customized to look any way you want and there are other themes available to install. It does have some restrictions and is also lacking some cool features that the other ones have but I think that for what it can do, it has become the main candidate for me to manage my projects and collaborate with colleagues.

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6 Responses to “Managing Projects”

  • 美丽心情 Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Hello..
    Can you speak chinese?
    I come from Qingdao, China.
    I enjoy your page design.
    You are the best。
    Good luck …..

  • Matthew Gallagher Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Project Pier is the fork of activCollab at the juncture where they went commercial. So a lot of the functionality of ProjectPier stems directyl from activCollab v.0.7.1

  • mirco Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    Yeaaahh!.
    A very nice design, Karim. I’m liked all the beautiful works find in your portfolio and I also appreciate the ProjectPier stumble upon :), I will test it very soon.
    Bravo man! :).

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    August 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

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  • Web Developer Says:
    October 14th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    We went through a few solutions. We have tried Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) but got tired of waiting for new features and the python language. Now we are working with an enhanced version of Eventum (http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) and it rocks. We even run our time report cards on it with some special reports that we have designed but it works great. It may be overwhelming for a one or two people shop.