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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Open source became a movement – a mentality.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

Up to 2005 they were the only solution supported by all major browsers at the time. When not hiking or stargazing, he crafts HTML and CSS, spends a lot of time debugging PHP and MySQL, ponders the details of user experience, and injects bits of personality into staid websites. Old school. Comments. link] Josh Long. link] Phil LaPier.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. It’s an *freaking open source*.net The list goes on and on.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. open-source-software(14). visual-studio-2005(10). activerecord(23). alt-net-israel(8). altnetuk(6). architecture(28).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source).