After trying out MyIntervals for a while, I think I am going back to Basecamp for my project management solution.
Why?
I really liked the time tracking/time management that MyIntervals offered, but there are several areas where I feel it didn’t meet my needs as well as Basecamp did.
While MyIntervals might be a terrific solution for some web developers, it has some features I didn’t need that only added to the complexity, and it was a lot weaker in terms of communication between me and my clients, an area that Basecamp is particularly strong in.
I’m going to really miss some of the time management functionality that MyIntervals provided, but there are a few add-ons to Basecamp that I believe will help close the gap in that area between the two solutions. In particular, Project Recon is one that I will definitely be trying out. I might also try some of the other solutions listed here in the near future, as they have several interesting ones listed there.
About a week ago, I got an email stating that Sphinx version 0.9.8 had been released.
I first used Sphinx well over a year ago, when I had a project that required full-text searching of a massive, 25 Million + database, something that was probably a little too big for the default MySQL full-text engine to handle. Additionally, I wanted to use the InnoDB MySQL engine, as opposed to the ISAM (which is the one that had full-text capabilities).
After doing some research, I ended up going with a MySQL/Sphinx joint solution, where I stored the data in MySQL, and used Sphinx to actually do the searching.
Since then, this already impressive project has come a long way, and if you haven’t already checked it out, it is well worth a look. It seems to be gaining quite a bit of traction. From the latest email:
Also in the news, we’re among the finalists in SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2008! Sphinx is in the shortlists for “Best Project”, “Best Project for the Enterprise”, and, somewhat unexpectedly for me, “Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition”. Many thanks to all who voted for Sphinx during the nominations! Now is the time to vote again in the 2nd round. There are several quite popular competitors (such as OpenOffice), so please spread the word as much as you can.
Here’s the link again…
