crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For most web startups, the initial launch of the product would likely have a contained number of users: you, the friends you forced to help you test, and possibly some beta testers. Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Number of Users.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. PHP is insecure? Languages like Tcl -- which powered Vignette s CMS products in the dotcom heyday -- are now rather unusual in web development.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Amazon Web Services. High Quality, and open sourced! Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. It’s an *freaking open source*.net The list goes on and on.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sharp to Launch Two 3D Android Handsets in Japan November 4, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers email share email share Do you like this story?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

New Web Order. Webmasterworld - A popular forum for web developers. SitePoint Forums - A popular marketplace and forum for web developers. Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. New Web Order.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. Drupal and PHP were tools I’ve acknowledged for a decade but never studied much.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. At least in the consumer & business web.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Every week, I run across many companies who tell me they’re looking for good referrals of software engineers, and particularly those with a good background in web-based or mobile technology. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View Comments Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] View Comments Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You Might Have Missed View Comments Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich View Comments PHP, MySQL & AJAX Developer at Comentum Corp. Kanye Wests Epic Hip Hop Opera "Runa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Was it an important or irrelevant fact that most of our web code was procedural and not object-oriented? Massive proprietary databases?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. Now you can build an app at true web scale without incurring any software costs, or any fixed hardware costs.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

COMEDIVA, a web production company developing a female-driven video comedy site, is searching for that multi-talented web developer / designer / SEO guru who can handle. View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Makes Hilarious Soc. View More » Tech Samsung Galaxy Tab Comes to T-Mobile.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. CSS frameworks could not have come to be without pivotal changes in web page layout. Learn More.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. Step 1: Two is better than one.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

View More » Web Video George W. Web Font Award Winners Showcase Why T. PHP Developer at Ultra Logistics (Fai. The 3 Biggest Stories in Tech & Busin. Bush Talks "the Facebook" a. Bush to Visit Facebook HQ f. Kitschy Indie Spy Feature Premieres o. Aussie Scores Invite to Strangers Th. Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Heres what the one-line split-test looks like in pseudocode: if( setup_experiment(.) == "control" ) { // do it the old way } else { // do it the new way } The call to setup_experiment has to do all of the work, which for a web application involves a sequence something like this: Check if this experiment exists. Buy a higher quantity 2.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. He says that intentional Web 2.0 Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. How Do I Start? Also, to address the issue of "OMG!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. BTW, its FF 3.07 Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, We had closer to several hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. what is your company web site or email address?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

PHP Tutorials. Web Design. Other possibilities include programming conferences, business networking events , programming forums, Q & A sites like StackOverflow , and open source project contributors. CSS Tutorials. HTML Tutorials. JavaScript Tutorials. XML Tutorials. Programming Tools. Joomla Extensions. Businesses.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Other examples are what Heroku calls a  Dyno ,  CloudFoundry Warden , and the most recent one by Google:  lmctfy  (it seems that creating and open sourcing your own application container is the new hip). Examples are  Google App Engine  (which allows you to deploy Java, Python, Go, and PHP) and  Heroku Buildpacks.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2012

That happens here on The Next Web as well, when we read about the latest startup to getting funding, or the biggest acquisition this week. Don’t get me wrong, we’re all for open source stuff like WordPress, MySQL, and PHP. .” Takeaway #1: Just do your own thing, keep your head down, and hussle.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure. For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Great post.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality.

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