I thought this was an interesting read: We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here from Coding Horror.
It won’t be easy for commercial software or subscription websites. If past history is any indication, beating the free alternatives is going to get progressively more difficult every year.
Thought it was very relevant with all the discussion [...]
Category Archives: Open-source
Beating Free Software
April 10, 2008 – 7:17 pm
The Closed State Of The ColdFusion Community
April 9, 2008 – 8:40 am
I saw this post on Mike Henke’s blog… ColdFusion is dead (yet again) and of course I had to go read it. Mike’s take was it was just another “CF is dead” rant. But I clicked through and read the original post The State Of ColdFusion and have to agree with many of [...]
The ‘Open’ CFML IDE Survey
April 9, 2008 – 7:00 am
Ray Camden kindly gave me access so I could setup a survey using his Soundings Survey application (it rocks!).
I’ve copied the original questions from the Adobe survey and added a few John Farrar sent me after some discussions on this open Aptana support ticket.
Once we collect some data I’ll publish the results on [...]
OpenBD Steering Committee
April 8, 2008 – 11:13 am
Alan has a list of the OpenBD (Open BlueDragon) Steering Committee on his blog:
Andy Allan, Peter Amiri, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Mark Drew, Adam Haskell, Jordan Michaels, Alan Williamson, Matt Woodward and Andy Wu
LOTS of good names on there and some really nice quotes but obviously I’m going to have to step up and volunteer [...]
Vince Bonfanti On ColdFusion Weekly, OpenBD Mailing List
April 3, 2008 – 6:01 pm
If you haven’t listened to the Vince Bonfanti interview on ColdFusion Weekly yet - go do it.
To be honest I was expecting a bit more of a ‘cut-n-paste’ interview where Vince responded with canned responses. It was anything but. Vince gave a great overview of his history (he’s a developer GASP!), [...]