tomhudson's Journal: How to get your company to sponsor an open-source project

1. Write a simple, quick web framework;
2. Make a couple of sites that use it;
3. Include a notice that it is licensed under under GPL in source;
4. Watch other devs struggle with the P.O.S known as Magento;
5. Suggest that we migrate to (my) framework, post the source online under the GPL, and invite others to use/contribute;
6. Get dev who was struggling with Magento to write shopping cart code (we need one anyway, and he's SO happy not to have to look at the tangled mess of Magento, never mind it's poor performance);
7. Put it all out there for everyone to use, mod, etc.

Everyone wins.

So at 5pm we decided that's the route we're going. Light-weight, fast, and easy for programmers to mod. (ab2 gives > 400 pages/sec for n=10,000, c=40, reading a list of users from a database and presenting user info in a table where each row is editable/deletable, and a form at the end to add a new user, on a P4 w / 1 gig of ram. I'm NOT kidding when I say "light-weight". This is a "green", eco-friendly system, capable of saturating a local 100mb/sec connection when serving pages from my laptop)

I'll be packaging it up this weekend for everyone to play with and say "that is ****ing LAME!".

Uh...

[Shadow Wrought]

I always thought c = 186,000 mi/sec?