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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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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. Although courses aren’t free, the books are.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

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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).