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

blog.expensify.com

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. The list goes on and on.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. 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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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Mantis (Open source). Seed Startups.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

The shift in mindset happens when they consider a truly agile application, where e.g., the user interface is configured based on a query to the schema, while it is populated with data from the triple store. The application even continues to work well when new data, and new schema, are merged into the system.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

As talented as a programmer/web developer may be, it still takes at least SOME time to grasp the basic concept of what you are wanting to do. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Harry Kirby Wallace (2010-06-20) # I like #1. "A programmer is much more likely to say, “I can do that!”