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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS.

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

Though we’re a big team overall, each project is made up of small teams to remain agile and maintain good communication. About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Agile Development. Application PaaS (aPaas) : language runtimes such as JVM and others that allows deployment of code written in different languages such as Java, Python, Go, Node.js, Grails, Scala, PHP etc. Agile Development (6). Engagement Tracking. Conversation Management. Employee Engagement. Social Marketing and Sales.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Seems like all of these problems can be to some degree addressed with agile development methods. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can skip the chasm. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.