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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work.

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Top 9 Reasons to Choose Cloud App Development

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to IT, small and big enterprises may now compete on equal footing because of the cloud app development company services. When you don’t have to worry about technological concerns, you can focus on your company. Good news for IT startups planning to develop on cloud platforms. Free resources.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

At dinner last week, my long time friend Dave Jilk (we just celebrated our 30th friendship anniversary) tossed a hypothesis at me that as people age, they resist adopting new technologies. People working in information technology tend to take a producer perspective. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today. Resources coding One Month Rails programming Ruby on Rails startup web development Y Combinator'

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

University of Michigan : From the University of Michigan, you’ll get access to great programming courses including Computer Vision and Internet History, Technology, and Security. School of Webcraft : Mozilla Foundation’s School of Webcraft is a peer-powered school that offers free web development education.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Some claim that all possible interactions of finance and technology, which I guess includes credit cards – the 1950’s invention, are FinTech. The term, itself, is a compound of “financial” and “technology”. You know PayPal, have heard of Bitcoin and, probably, even stumbled upon the term FinTech a few times. What is FinTech now

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Motivation.

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