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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Of course, I'm not sure that anyone chooses Java alone.

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

www.reincubate.com

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

Conversation Management. Sales Activity Management. Technology. Affordable Technology. Information & knowledge management. Workflow Management. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Engagement Tracking. Employee Engagement.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

In a Software Defined Datacenter these elements are all provisioned, configured, and managed by a central software solution. In principle, commodity hardware can be used as the more advanced management and reliability is taken care of by the virtualization layer. When people talk about â??cloudâ?? speak, write).

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

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. Or, what do you do if you’re just coming out of school and all you’ve done is Java coursework? Build an app, get it into the App Store.