FineTooth is a company using text-mining and knowledge extraction software for a web based contract management solution for new and legacy paper contracts. Please see our home page http://www.finetooth.com for a complete description of our offerings.

When developing our products we have found open source projects, development tools, and libraries as well as the Internet community as a whole very valuable. Like most development shops we use the standard set (linux, apache, mysql, postgresql, cvs, perl, python, php) of tools. Lately we have also started to use some of the javascript libraries, scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/) and prototype (http://prototype.conio.net/), for example. In working with these various projects we have found it necessary to at times make bug fixes, or tune them to our specific needs. This blog was initially envisioned as a organized place for our team to discuss our changes and host the source for those changes when appropriate.

We have since thought that this blog would be a good way for our whole development team to:

• Release new code back to the community
• Comment on open source projects we are using or investigating
• Comment on future development of our products
• Preview new features and enhancements to our products

I hope you find our future posts and code valuable, interesting, or at least amusing.

Scott Diedrick
Technical Director
FineTooth