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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

Find the target market: I think I’d like to go after computer science and MIS grads who have prior inclination towards technology, but haven’t yet gained enough applied training to be usable to a startup—taking someone from a few school JAVA projects or maybe even nothing more than IT management courses to Ruby proficiency.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. But basically any big IT player has an offering, like  Microsoft Windows Azure ,  Google Compute Engine , and  IBM SmartCloud , to name a few. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions.

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Building Workflows should be easy - and they will be.with Zenaton!

Cracking the Code

This blog post was co-authored with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner and former CTO of Pivotal Nearly all businesses have process-related workflows that govern how their users interact with their service or automate internal tasks.and they are painful to code and even more painful to test. So, why does this happen?

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