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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

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). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. Almost every PHP-based website is burdened with ugly URLs that contain the name of the file that implements each page. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. As a language, its inelegant.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. One last thought.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Having worked with dozens of founders over the past few months, I think I can safely say, without naming any names, that most of us are not too clear on what were talking about when it comes to markets. Remember Java? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Is a market a set of paying customers?