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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

by Marcus Harris, Software Litigator at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. Since 2003, October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to promote safety and security online.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? And that’s the position you want to be in.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). The lack of stable logging in Java shows the price of open source -innovation in parallel- with the price of one vendor not being able to say “this is the logging API, be grateful&# , the way MS can do in.NET land.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

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RWW Recommends: The Startup Toolkit

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You can certainly find open-source alternatives for less, but while other tools can challenge BaseCamps functionality, they cant touch its UI. Its worth mentioning that software development firms or other startups with very detailed project milestones and dependencies may find BaseCamp insufficient for some situations.

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