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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. A need to on-board an in-house development team composed of recent college graduates (tempered with an understanding of performance and scale economics) pushes for Ruby/Rails, ensuring a talent pool from which to select. Playing it safe.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

The generally accepted hourly wage calculation used by the staffing industry is Annual Salary divided by 2000 Hours. If you sum up these costs and divide them by 2000 Hours then you are looking at $1.15 Adjust the annual average to what it should be on an hourly basis. So for someone making $70k that comes out to around $35/hr.

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“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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Fire in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

But all we talked about at dinner last night at Ruby Tuesday was fire. The second fire was the Walker Ranch Fire of 2000. For starters, Amy and I are fine. The fires are not threatening our house (yet). Colorado is having a horrible fire season. Amazing amazing people.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar. ­om migrated off Drupal. ­om migrated off Drupal. Drupal worked for both of us for a while, but there are now better alternativ ­es: [link] ­ckennedy.o ­rg/Drupal-

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring. Alon: a lot :).

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