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Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
Pragmatic Utopia started out as my personal webpage. For a while, it held updates on personal things, like travel, photos, and the like. For some reason, I decided that I wanted to drive some traffic to the website. It seemed like adding some games would be a good way to do it.
I set about writing a basic Mambo component (there was no such thing as Joomla yet) to display some games and allow me to manage them in the back end. I received some demand to share the component, and so I released it under the terms of the GPL as PUArcade. Several years passed, and there were a couple updates to PUArcade along the way. It was still very much a basic arcade system.
On New Years day of 2007, I released a major update to PUArcade that really brought it up to speed as one of the most feature rich arcade components available. Shortly after that release, I released something I thought the community had been lacking since day 1: a database administration component, which I called PU Database Admin, or PU DBA for short.
Today, Pragmatic Utopia projects are in use on tens of thousands of websites all over the world, both commercial and personal alike. The projects remain free and open source, and are developed for fun in my free time. Pragmatic Utopia remains solidly unprofitable - but not for lack of hope.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 18 May 2007 )
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