Author Archives: Sam Bauers

We’re hiring

We’re currently looking for a linux sys-admin to run our Gentoo based web-servers.

Check out the listing on Seek.

The position will be responsible for looking after our client services as well as contributing to the development of new solutions. It’s a good opportunity to get paid to work in support of an open-source initiative that has […]

Developing web apps for the iPhone

I recently made a presentation at UNSW about the do’s and don’ts of web app development on the iPhone. Although this was a presentation based on my trip to WWDC, this information is all available in public documents.

It started out as a how-to, but there turned out to be quite a few limitations to iPhones […]

Go PHP 5

Today Omnium Open joined the Go PHP 5 initiative. In fact Omnium Software has required PHP 5.1.6 for a while now, but we will be happy to push that up to PHP 5.2

The Go PHP 5 initiative hopes to force web hosts to adopt PHP 5.2 by moving a whole bunch of popular tools like […]

Omnium at the Apple WWDC

San Francisco, post WWDC 2006 - Downtown San Francisco lies in ruins after the infamous “Rampage of the Nerds” at WWDC 2006.

Thanks to the generous folks at the Apple University Consortium, who have provided me with a scholarship. I will be off to the Apple WWDC.

I’ll be spending most of my time in the content […]

Omnium™ Software goes Open Source

Yesterday, we made available for download the upcoming version of Omnium Software under an open source license.

The code is still in beta, so it’s only has a small set of the functionality that is planned for the final 4.0 release.

For more details you can visit the Omnium Open website.