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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. billion online in the first quarter of this year. The Big Players. The Funding.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? agile software development. (46). agile software development. (46).

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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). So the cool kids aren’t using Java. Or are they? Many of the hottest NoSQL technologies are written in Java.

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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). So the cool kids aren’t using Java. Or are they? Many of the hottest NoSQL technologies are written in Java.

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Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization

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Philip Morgan: I work primarily with self-employed software developers, so I’m going to pull an example from their world to make this super concrete, and hopefully it’ll be relevant for enough other folks in your audience. That’s one way to look at how you specialized, and that is a very viable way of specializing.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

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This further ensures that you tightly control the API that governs which portions of native functionality may be accessed by the Web view. Like most things in software development, there must be some caveats to developing with Web views. Bridging From iOS To A UIWebView. Web Views: What’s The Downside? Good stuff.

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

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This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0

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