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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. When your production system is not working right, you need help and you need it fast. Even a seemingly simple task of writing a system script might not be the best use of development time.

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

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Insightful.