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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Java/Azure appliances will come in. The programming paradigms to take advantage of the cloud are one of the biggest challenges we have. Do you want to have virtualization to reduce the number of servers to minimum possible?

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

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Windows Azure. t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital.