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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Massive proprietary databases?

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Best of luck, Your Software." (OK, When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. Good stuff.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. For example, I wold often work the circle-drawing question with candidates who only had ever programmed in a web-based scripting language like PHP. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Incremental and proportional software complexity. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. As you increase the amount of data partitioning, application code gets more complex.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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