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Getting Real Chapter 14

This chapter is all about launching your application. We’ve been through with the promotions. Now, It’s time to launch our newly finished product. In an application life cycle, maintenance plays a vital role. There’s no perfect in this world, everything might crash. The job of the maintenance team is to maintain, repair, and to give support. Usually, users have a lot of questions since they are new to the application. They have to know what to click, what to type, in general they have to know what to do.

Having a help feature might lessen the work of the support team since it contains the things about the application. The users could get answers to their questions using this feature. Also, according to this chapter, the company should make a list of bugs and bug fixes so that they would know what you’ve done to the application.

Support is really an important factor in an application. Go getting real!

Getting Real Chapter 13

This chapter is all about the things you have to do next after finishing a project. Why do companies do promotional activities even a product is not yet release in the market? Promotion is an important part of the product life cycle. If a company doesn’t have any promotional activity for a certain product, the product is likewise wouldn’t succeed. Success varies from the things that you are doing for the product. If you do less, your earn less.

Usually, high earning companies promote their products by advertising (TV, radio, Internet, etc), free tasting/trial, or by showing some parts of it. The point of these promotions is to get the people’s acknowledgement and to make them know that a certain product is getting ready to enter the market. If people like your teasers, they will wait for it to the point that they would be excited about it and make it to a point that they will talk about it. Once the day of releasing came, sales would be good.

If you want to make your product/service to be known by the people, do promotional activities. This is the chapter 13 of Getting Real.

The Magic Cauldron

Having Open source software available is indeed very helpful for people who are not that “pro” when it comes to programming and this chapter explain its significance for the public to realize the benefits Open source have brought us. If you just only knew basic things but have the willingness to get things on your way, open source might be the thing that you need. What you need to do is slice the codes and analyze them so that the codes will fit into your system very well. The author also reveals that he’s sorting out new ideas and analyses for the programmers who are developing systems.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Afterword

There are many things in this world left unanswered and get people confused. Like this chapter is trying to inform us, Open source software have many problems remain unsolved and not all things have been compromised. The fact that open resource software creates many sorts of work and different kind of intellectual property, there will always be questions and inquiries about the real “things” about the open source software. This is the last chapter of this book and as I have said, questions for open source software remained unsolved. The author of this book anticipated the movement boost of the open source software. Though his anticipation is not so exact, having predicted that within 2003-2005, the open source movement will be popular is a great achievement for him. Today, there are many open source software available for public use in the web. They are easy to use and can benefit the people who are not so good in programming. It is widely use and the open source software have been helping many people today as far as I have observed.

The Revenge of the Hackers

If hacking today is crime, then most people who use the worldwide web would be culprits for the crime. Open source erupted in the mainstream of 1998. It is said to be the revenge of the hackers after 20 years of relegating an unimportant or powerless position within the society. The author of this chapter narrates the history of hacker Dom which was in 1996. He was very much interested about the Hacker’s culture that made him popular for being the hacker’s cultural historian. He also thinks of himself as such because it is somewhat true because he was always fascinated by their culture and he actually liked being known as such. He is continuing his role as the “historian” of the culture of the Hackers.

Cathedral and the bazaar

It is basically the introduction of the main book. It explains the title of the book and why it is like that. Linux has always been doing different approaches for the software but the author stated that he is trying to find out other ways and means for him to experience a new and different approach because he’s been studying Linux for a long time now. He also stated that the approaches and the agendas of Linux is sort of bazaar because of the different things they do. The author’s work and Linux have different approaches and yet, he stated that the latter is a good software.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – A Brief History of Hackerdom

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – A Brief History of Hackerdom

A brief history of Hackerdom is the second chapter of the Cathedral and the Bazaar which tells us about the brief explanation about the Hackerdom’s history. Hackerdom for me means a kingdom of hackers ruled by the a king hacker and a queen hacker. hahah! Just kidding. To tell you honestly, for me, hackerdom is all about people who love challenges. They love hacking per se. Before, There’s no such thing called hackers. Even the term “programmer” was not existing until the 1980’s. Programmers before usually had a background in engineering or physics. Hackers were born because of the rise of interactive computing. Now, hackers are now building their own kingdom with an open-source culture.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Homesteading the Noosphere

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Homesteading the Noosphere

this chapter is all about going inside the minds of the people. To be specific, they are called hackers. This chapter explains how how the customs(an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country.) control the open-source softwares.The people can change as well as the hackers’ minds. When we start change, we should make sure that we are doing change for good. If hackers have a good intention of creating softwares, then we shouldn’t worry. But if a hacker have evil plans, then we should do something about it.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Introduction

This chapter is all about the main topic of the book which is the cathedral and the bazaar. This book is basically all about computer hackers, computer hacking, open-source community and hackerdom. It explains how hackers lives, how do they behave,and what culture do they really have. It also explains here the value of open source to people. Hackers are people who loves finding alternative ways the those existing ways. They love finding ways so that the cost for them would be lesser rather than buying an existing one for an expensive price. Some people mislead by the word hackers. before, I personally think that hackers do bad things. They make systems crash or create viruses. Now, I believe that I’m also a hacker since I want to find alternative ways to those existing one.