Community, Engineer, Open Source and Web Development

What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. Similar stuff is happening in the e-commerce arena.

PHP

PHP Management HTML Framework

Twitter Link Roundup #37 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Color Inspiration: Awesome Red Websites – [link]. 50 Examples of Black in Web Design – Black is Beautiful! 50+ Ultimate Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers – [link]. 40 Amazing Web Apps for Freelancers – [link]. How to Prepare for a Web Design Project – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Is the technology open sourced?

Technology

Technology Web PHP Caching

Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source.

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire

4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

France

France Marketing Social Media Startup

Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. It was a simple and extremely powerful idea, and SMW now encompasses an active worldwide developer community. Left brain search = Google.

Semantic

Semantic Web Wiki Guatemala

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

Security

Security Software Review Ruby Startup

6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Meanwhile, some of the web’s best-known companies increased their presence in New York City — likely bringing investor money and capable engineers with them. Open Source Lists.

New York City

New York City New York Startup Social Media

How To Close The Books on Your Startup

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. I’ve noticed a number of web development firms and agencies just vanish without a trace. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards.

LLC

LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup

LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Pretty terrible.

San Francisco

San Francisco New York City Social Media Entrepreneur

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

Technical Review

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5

Startup

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network

How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Appcelerator Titanium Appcelerator’s Titanium platform was designed from the offset to help web developers create mobile and tablet applications with ease. Unify Project The Unify Project is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create smartphone apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

Developer

Developer HTML API Ruby

270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

Software Review

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software

How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business

mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

The name I chose is scovry and the website ( [link] ) that it goes to is a social media based search engine that displays results in a “spy” type format. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Maps Lists. Mobile Lists. Moms and Family Resource Lists. Money and Finance Lists.

Naming

Naming Social Media Social Network RSS

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

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Indeed, for all the outrage and fury, this is actually common knowledge amongst startups, and I was going to support that with a bit more data to win over the skeptics (at least, those who were open to listening). And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application.

Java

Java PHP Software Review Coder

What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

For a while, everyone was hailing Penguin as putting a stop to over-optimization, which while true, caused a lot of people to adjust their website so heavily that it wasn’t even optimized at all. That’s how search engines know what your site is about. Are you hosting an event in the community? That boiled down to keywords.

Algorithm

Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO

Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Flash vs. HTML5: The "Pong" Version 37Signals Creates iPad-Only Web App An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for i.

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Pinterest is probably the best tool for this, given its robust database of high-quality images, but you can also use e-commerce sites like Etsy or a simple image search on one of the major search engines. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Use foreign words. Maps Lists. Mobile Lists.

Naming

Naming Startup Social Media RSS

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

PHP

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco

How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. So, while your post is a good summary (of things that cant be learned quickly.

CTO Hire

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities.

Naming

Naming Startup Social Media RSS

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Website/Blogging. Ning Communities. High Quality, and open sourced! We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

StartUpRoar

What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

Twitter Link Roundup #37 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

Trending Sources

Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

Which language should my startup use?

4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

How To Close The Books on Your Startup

LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business

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

What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

Startup Tools

Why Your Startup's Name Matters

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