Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova
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Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova

How do you commercialize open-source products? While at NDC Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Victoria Melnikova about her work with Evil Martians, helping startups make open-source products and make a living at the same time. Victoria talks about various revenue strategies, but always with a mind to providing a "forever free" tier to be responsible to the open source community. Charging for pro-features, limiting the number of uses before a paid tier... there are several approaches to revenue that users can work with, as long as you are open and honest about how things work!

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Mobile Games using Xamarin Forms and Azure Service Fabric with Jon Peppers

Mobile Games using Xamarin Forms and Azure Service Fabric with Jon Peppers

You can make a game in Xamarin Forms? Yes! Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Peppers about his latest work on NBA Life, a role-playing game for iOS and Android built with Xamarin Forms. Jonathan talks...

25 Huhti 201753min

Antibiotic Geek Out

Antibiotic Geek Out

Most of us have taken antibiotics at some point in our lives, but how do they work? Time for a Geek Out! Richard talks through some fundamental cell biology to be able to set the stage for what antibi...

20 Huhti 20171h 5min

C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 with Kathleen Dollard

C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 with Kathleen Dollard

C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 are shipped - now what? Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen Dollard about her experiences working with folks that are trying to dig into the latest version of Microsoft devel...

18 Huhti 20171h 2min

DevOps Pipelines with Donovan Brown

DevOps Pipelines with Donovan Brown

The whirlwind of DevOps is back! Carl and Richard talk to Donovan Brown about his on-going mission to get everyone into a DevOps practice - in fact, he talks about getting to a place where continuous ...

13 Huhti 20171h 1min

Multi-tenant Apps Using cloudscribe with Joe Audette

Multi-tenant Apps Using cloudscribe with Joe Audette

What does it take to build great multi-tenant apps on the cloud? Carl and Richard talk to Joe Audette about his set of open source tools called cloudscribe to make multi-tenant apps easier to implemen...

11 Huhti 20171h

MVVM Cross with Martijn van Dijk

MVVM Cross with Martijn van Dijk

MVVMCross has grown up! Carl and Richard chat with Martjin van Dijk about his work on MVVMCross. Past guest Stuart Lodge started MVVMCross way back in 2012 when it was focused on building MVVM apps in...

6 Huhti 201742min

VSTS Analytics with Steven Borg

VSTS Analytics with Steven Borg

What can analytics around development do for you? Carl and Richard talk to Steven Borg about his work with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), especially around understanding developer productivity. T...

4 Huhti 201759min

Chaiscript with Jason Turner

Chaiscript with Jason Turner

Scripting with C++? Of course! Carl and Richard talk to Jason Turner about ChaiScript, his open source project that simplifies adding C++ as a scripting language to any application, but especially oth...

30 Maalis 201749min