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Quora, a hot Q&A startup has been gaining traction at an astounding rate for a while now. Though not a frequent user, I was impressed by the many candid answers from some of the biggest names in our industry (IT). A lot of inside information and perspective can be found there, and it's a credit to their team for getting those players on board. Read the rest of this entry »
My take on Quora vs. Stackoverflow, or substance vs. social
Interesting • The Webs February 1st, 2011Binpress launched and a programming contest
Lionite • PHP • Web development January 28th, 2011I'm excited to announce that we launched Binpress (I'm a co-founder), a marketplace for source-code where web developers can buy and sell source-code from each other.
To kick start our launch, we've organized a programming contest with over $40k in cash and prizes, sponsored by companies such as Google, Amazon, PayPal and Zend. Check out the contest site, and join if you think you have what it takes - the contest will run until 24th of Feb., so get cracking!
Zend Framework dependency manager
Open Source • PHP • Zend Framework November 2nd, 2010Reusing Zend Framework based code can be a bit of a pain - you do not want to include the entire framework just for a few classes, yet tracking down the dependencies needed to run your code can be time consuming and it's hard to tell if you aren't missing anything.
To overcome those issues, I wrote a utility class to automatically resolve Zend Framework dependencies by fetching them from the online SVN repository when they are needed (and then storing them locally). The class is available for download from Binpress under the MIT license.
Software licenses for dummies
Business Development • Lionite • Open Source • PHP • Web development October 5th, 2010The legal aspects of selling software are, for the most part, pretty vague for most developers. During preparations for launching our software market, Binpress, I absorbed a lot of information from our very good copyright attorney and got to understand much better the nuances of software licensing. Here are some of the lessons I learned.
For how long will Microsoft hold back the web?
The Webs • Web development September 29th, 2010It's 2010. Despite rumors to the contrary, the web is not dead. In fact, it is thriving more than ever (unless bandwidth consumption is your main metric). Yet, it is standing at a crossroads.
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