Thanks to the generous folks at Review Board, OpenMRS has the opportunity to try out Review Board for performing code reviews for our GSoC projects. Students can download post -review (a python script) and submit changes for review simply by issuing the command “post-review” within the root of their local copy. Mentors can review the [...]

Thanks to the strong work of the folks at Mibbit.com, you can now join the #openmrs IRC channel directly from the OpenMRS.org website!  Just visit irc.openmrs.org to try it out.

No, I’m not smoking anything and I’m not trying to do a Greg Brady impersonation. By “groovy” module…I mean a Groovy module. Groovy has the potential to bring the fun and rapid prototyping benefits of languages like Ruby to the Java scene. But a big advantage of Groovy is that it’s built [...]

I’m sitting in Nairobi at the WHO Standards Meeting listening to Mike McCay presenting about user interface design. He introduced the five B’s (which he attributed to Christian Allen). Users are attracted to parts of a user interface in this order: Bikinis — people are attracted to images, so make sure that images [...]

Paul and I gave a presentation on OpenMRS at the 10th Biennial Regenstrief Conference. The conference topic was “Transformational Change in Healthcare Systems.” What we learned (and what got us to this talk) came out a gift from Tom Inui: a book called Getting To Maybe. We discovered that there’s smarter people [...]

We’re just getting started at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2007 at Google Headquarters. There are hundreds of participants here from 114 different organizations. At the moment, I’m sitting in a talk on how to turn students/interns into successful committers and beyond. The SilverStripe folks shared some nice ideas, a couple that [...]