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

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Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. More to come.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I personally think that the opinion about PHP in the web-developer community is way too negative. very good article!

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

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another. For these engineers, the RDF standard, and out-of-the-box RDF databases, allow them to buy this part of their solution rather than build it. RDFS RDFS introduces the notion of inferencing to the Semantic Web stack, in a gentle way.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn.