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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. For coders: build the User Interface.

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

Will we look back at the age where developers toiled over individual lines of code as archaic? After all, lots of the code required to build web services are now available off the open source shelf--and many of the processes formally asked of the code are being worked into the language itself, like with Ruby on Rails.

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5 Lies CTOs Tell To Feel Better About Coding

YoungUpstarts

by Jinesh Parekh, CEO of Ruby on Rails consulting shop, Idyllic Software. You believe you’re the greatest coder in the world and what you do can never be replicated by anyone else. Jinesh Parekh is the CEO of a Ruby on Rails consulting shop, Idyllic Software. Hey there, you amazingly resourceful person. Cheers to you!

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?

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We’re all coders

Start Up Blog

As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. And no, I haven’t gone out and learned PHP or Ruby or the latest groovy language. As far as I can tell it is still the greatest software code we’ve ever developed. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. My code is the english language.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. This imbalance keeps L.A.

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Coda- one window web development for OS X

Jason Ball

I’ve been using Panic’s Coda , everything-web-development tool, and agree with others , it is the bee’s knees. Not only is it a great web development tool, it’s five tools in one window: HTML Editor, CSS Editor, Terminal, FTP, Browser and Library. Ruby on Rails integration is (rumored) to be coming as well.