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

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. 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 certainly dont.

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