Presentations on Web Application Frameworks

A research by Matt Raible. Here are the presentations.

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Make Programmers Happy

Programmers can be innovative only when they are happy. Let’s hear what David Heinemeier Hansson said about Ruby on Rails.

Let Java retire from the spotlight of web applications in dignity

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Carl Talked about Gravity Forms

Create Complex Forms with Gravity Forms

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Different Paradigms Between Joomla and WordPress

Check out this article: Joomla And WordPress: A Matter Of Mental Models from Smashing Magazine

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Interviews with Open Source CMS Leaders

Louis Landry

On the first conversation, Louis addressed some issues on how to make money within the Joomla ecosystem.

• By Scott Swigart
• By CMSWire

Matt Mullenweg

• By Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Dries Buytaert

• By Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

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How does WordPress make money?

Here is a detailed explanation on this question.

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The Story of Joomla License

The license rules of  Joomla extensions have been changed three years before. After the change, Joomla is getting more popular and the amount of commercial open source extensions are also increasing quickly. The articles below tells the stories behind the truth.

• State of the Project Report: Joomla! Web CMS
• Open Source Does Matter …

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Business model of open source

Here are some articles on how to run businesses on open source software.  Most of them focus on CMS open source software.

• Study: Pure Open Source Is Not a Business Model
• How to Make Money with Open Source Software
• Interview with eZ Systems – Lessons from 10 Years of Open Source
• Can Open Source CMS be Profitable? It’s eZ

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Enlightenment of Gravity Forms

As Carl Hancock said, “There is value in purchasing Gravity Forms because we provide a high level of support and ongoing updates to the product.”, the core strength of a GPL-based software company is to react to the market as fast as possible and to provide agile solutions to users in the community.

Here are some useful posts:

• GPL In Practice: Carl Hancock of Gravity Forms Speaks Out
• [Plugin: Gravity Forms Addons] Only commercial intent? (8 posts)
• WordPress plugin rules
• Free version of Gravity Forms?

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