Monday, Sept 18: Starting a company for under $1,000

see also Under1K-Business, Under1K-Marketing, and Under1K-Operations

Engineering

• Remote tech employees: Buyer puts the project and price. Service providers compete by providing the service first. Buyer then has the choice to pick the service provider.
  • oDesk
  • Rentacoder
  • ScriptLance

• IDEs - Linux / Eclipse, Microsoft developer program
  • NetBeans It's free.
  • Ubuntu Linux -- boots from CD
  • Join MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) inexpensively, get multiple licenses for everything you need, including MS Office applications

• Frameworks - Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Webwork2, Tapestry, Ruby on Rails
  • Java: Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Webwork2, Tapestry, JasperReports
  • +1 Spring, Hibernate
  • .Net: huge community of Microsoft developers means a bunch of code out on the net available to reuse
  • Ruby on Rails: good for rapid prototyping; scalable?
  • JasperReports: very good, part of Spring
  • Symphony? (PHP)
  • SOA: ServiceMix, Synapse
  • ebxml registry repository

• Application wikis, spreadsheets - EditMe, Jotspot, PBwiki, Mediawiki, Twiki, Wikispaces, WetPaint
  • Note: Peter Thoeny is speaking Sep-19-06 on Wiki Collaboration and Wiki Applications in the Workplace
  • PBwiki is addictive.
  • Jotspot is application wiki (installable). Project tracking, task list.
  • PMwiki - installable, very usable.
  • Mediawiki - installable, very usable.

• CMS lists 100's of open source CMS
  • Squarespace, Plone
  • Drupal
  • webgui
  • xaraya

• Forums & Bulletin Boards - phpBB

• Web hosting - various providers
  • godaddy
  • ipowerweb - $100/year for virtual hosting
  • bluehost - $7/mo
  • HostMonster - supports Ruby & Rails

• QA - testing, quality assurance
  • JUnit
  • Fit and Fitness: Fitness is a wiki-like wrapper on top of Fit
  • Rails has QA framework built-in
  • JMeter -- performance testing.

• Project Management
  • Xplanner (XP Agile project management tool)
  • BaseCamp
  • MindManager $200 for license. trial version available.
  • mindmapper is free.
  • freemind is good. good for brainstorming.

• Continuous Build and Integration
  • CruiseControl
  • Buildbot - easier than cruise control
  • Tinderbox used by Mozilla
  • Gauntlet Systems now part of Borland

• Source Control
  • Subversion
  • Tortoise SVN extends subversion for windows.

• Bug Tracking
  • BugZilla
  • Trac. It is also wiki. It integrates with Subversion.