Continuous Deployment Engineer Java Management 
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). An engineer who can talk intelligently about gender!
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Communication.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I havent had a reason to try Python, but I certainly know Java and C# and ASP.NET pretty well. Enough about that.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. One last thought.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
Here your challenge is to convince that manager that you really can do the job at such low cost. Remember Java? Its more important that you just understand why your product exists, and how it manages to do so in relation to those (unique) start-ups which would just love to take your customers. Expo (and a call for he.
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