January User Group:: Developing, pricing and delivering OSS
applications
Your software chops are sharp; you've got the latest in hardware and development tools; now for that minor point: how do you price, develop and deliver the project without losing your shirt, pulling your hair out, or ending up in court.
Join BostonPHP and Cliff Hirsch
(owner Pinestream Communications) as he describes the journey of a
bootstrapped, entrepreneurial OSS development effort that seems to have
followed "the flight path of a house fly". Cliff is a great guy and great speaker. Active on both the BostonPHP and NYPHP mailing lists and never one to shy away from controversy, Cliff's submissions always getting a lot of traction. This promises to be a fun and interesting discussion.
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About:
Cliff Hirsch is the president
of Pinestream Communications, a publisher of newsletters focused on
semiconductor and next generation network startups and emerging technologies
for the investment community. He is over educated, possessing B.S, M.B.A,
and Master of Electrical Engineering degrees from Cornell University,
and spent the early years of his career immersed in the semiconductor
industry.
So why is Hirsch presenting
to BostonPHP? Several years ago, he had a web “idea” and absolutely
no clue what that meant. By trial and fire, he learned…as old people
do…slowly and painfully… He will openly share his many lessons with
you:
- He figured out that PHP is
a better web language than Fortran
- He wonders why Ruby was off
the radar of his initial language analysis
- He laments the lack of Frameworks
when he started out
- He wrote a mountain of code
himself
- He scrapped a mountain of code
written by others
- He wonders why he still writes
code since he should be a manger at his age
- He outsourced to a 15 year
old, India, Romania, Bulgaria and Russia
- He purchased and scrapped off-the
shelf software
- He purchased and integrated
off-the-shelf software
- He mastered Zend Studio and
wonders how others live without it
- He wow’d himself with his
first AJAX functionality
- He spent no small fortune on
books, conferences and other training
- He learned the horrors of encoders
- He slipped so many deadlines
he no longer quotes a launch date
- He battles with the schizo
I’m the artistic coder, I’m the business man dilemma
- And he learned many, many other
lessons the hard way
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Friday, 21 November 2008
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