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Eric Wise » Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
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Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!

Call it temporary insanity.  Call it an experiment to see if the "community" can really support a useful software program that isn't a browser or operating system.  Call it what you will, but I have decided to release Easy Assets .NET as free open source software.  You can download it here.

 

As per the license restrictions in the package, please note the following highlights:

  1. You can't resell, charge for hosting, or otherwise make a profit off this application.  It's for your internal use only.
  2. You're more than welcome to submit tweaks, additional features, etc to me but you are not allowed to distribute the software without my permission.
  3. You're more than welcome to publish any code samples you want from the application, just be a good person and cite the source.

 

Oh, and please note that I do pay for hosting the domain, the downloads, etc not including all the time that was spent on this software.  If your company uses it don't be stingy, toss me a donation!  It'd cost you more than $500 to get software like this from a traditional vendor.

Custom work and support contracts are also available (paid).  Contact sales@easywebapps.com if your company is interested in that.

Posted Mon, Aug 1 2005 12:21 PM by Eric Wise

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Comments

anonymous wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 10:30 AM
Just FYI - I got an error during the database install: "Invalid column name 'ResourceID'". All options were left to defaults.
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 10:54 AM
There is a new version of the dbinstall in the .zip file and also in the downloads directory that fixes this issue.
Ayende Rahien wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 11:16 AM
The zealots will call you a liar because they can't take your work and make money of it.

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That said, good luck. I'm following the blog for quite some time, and I enjoyed the posts about EasyAssest.Net, I hope you & it will be successful.

Now I just need some assest so I could track them :-)
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 11:20 AM
Well, this is the OSS community's chance to prove to me that a coder who puts time and effort into a software package can give it away and still eat at the end of the day.
Lautz of .NET wrote Eric Wise Going Open Source!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 11:37 AM
Here's wishing Eric Wise success on his open source endeavor I look forward to following his success. ...
Scott C. Reynolds wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 1:39 PM
Wow, what an astounding move! I hope it pays off. I was trying to pitch this to the suits here where I work already, so I downloaded it and hopefully a demo will convince them to make a purchase.
Colin the random scotsman wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 1 2005 2:01 PM
Not so much of a comment but a request for another post on the subject. I've been following your blog entries about Easy Assets with great interest from the point of wanting to start up myself in about a year. I'd love to know why you've chosen to do this and what you feel you could gain.
NTUlip wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 6:19 AM
Resource table is not found. Please update DBInstall.exe,

Thank you
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 11:14 AM
Make sure you have the 8/2 version from Downloads folder.
JD wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 11:25 AM
It asks me for a password.
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 12:19 PM
The DBInstaller? Certainly it will. You have to specify an account with rights to create a new database.
JuanBarbatos wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 12:28 PM
When I go to download it, I am being prompted for a username/password. Any suggestions?
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 12:34 PM
Ah, I see. When I replaced the files it didn't keep the security options.

They should be publically downloadable now.
JW wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 2 2005 7:20 PM
No errors during installation - however after logging in and clicking Company --> Manage Job Descriptions all I see is:

"Invalid object name 'ResourceTypes'."

And on other pages I see: "Invalid object name 'Resources'."

Any thoughts?
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Wed, Aug 3 2005 10:59 AM
If you're having error messages with resource types or resources check the JobDescriptionDAO and EmployeeDAO and the stored procedures.

Before releasing this I refactored Resources to Employees and Resource Types to Job Descriptions. If the Deploy business layer .dlls are out of sync like that I'll have to replace them.
JW wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Tue, Aug 9 2005 6:11 PM
It appears they might need to be replaced - is anyone else seeing these issues with reources and resource types?
Mike Gunderloy wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Sun, Aug 14 2005 8:48 PM
I'm seeing that same error (downloaded copies on 8/11). I'd like to run a review if you can get fixed copies posted.
Eric Wise wrote re: Easy Assets :: Free Open Source?!
on Mon, Aug 15 2005 6:06 PM
I have rebuilt the application and updated the deploy folder. The code appeared to be fine but the deployment folder seemed to have an old build.

I have posted it as EasyAssets1_0_1.zip
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