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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture. Playing it safe.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. How bad were those bugs?

Security 101
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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. To me on of PHPs best attributes is that its C for the Web.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

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. Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Appcelerator Titanium Appcelerator’s Titanium platform was designed from the offset to help web developers create mobile and tablet applications with ease. Rhodes Rhodes is a Ruby-based framework designed to help developers create native apps for a wide range of devices and platforms.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework?