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

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). My first time at your blog.

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Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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Embrace technical debt

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The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. This reverses the standard intuition about what engineering activities add value, which usually concludes that test coverage is a form of necessary waste but a refactoring is value-added work. These kinds of design are mostly orthogonal.

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The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. are built on Drupal. Big boy applications. What is Drupal?

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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