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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby." Bottom line, you really are not seeing that much different between Ruby/Rails and Groovy/Grails in terms of development speed.

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Growing Your Business While Growing as an Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

My guest on today’s podcast is Jill Nelson, founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists. Ruby Receptionists also frequently appears on “best of” lists, having landed on Fortune ‘s list of Top 5 Best Small Businesses to Work For in the U.S. Learn more about Ruby Receptionists. How did they change over time?

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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.

Security 101
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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. There are a lot of C and C++ programmers out there who have had to move to web based development and Python and Ruby are not C. It is one reason why I like ruby. So heres to the team that built PHP. the list goes on).

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app. “But But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply Mike Byrnes , on April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am said: Steve: I just found your site and blog from a link off Venture Hacks “Two great talks from SLLConf&# I fell like I’ve just found the mother lode! Thanks Phil Gainley Reply Margit Niemelä , on August 16, 2010 at 6:29 am said: Steve, wonderful job! Thanks a million.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I learned Ruby on Rails. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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