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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

From your team’s familiarity with the language, to development costs and available resources, there are many factors to consider when choosing a programming language. Let’s face it – you’re probably an excellent salesperson, a great networker and a capable businessman, but software development is a whole other story.

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

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. What are the most common skills in each category?

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

Princeton : Through Princeton University’s Coursera site, you can find courses on algorithms, computer architecture, and networks. School of Webcraft : Mozilla Foundation’s School of Webcraft is a peer-powered school that offers free web development education.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

For sure, Apple iOS development skills (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch applications); anything web related (particularly, User Interface/UI talents, web front end work, database backend, etc.); and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software.