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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. Ruby on Rails as a platform?

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. And this all came bundled up in another bad practice: a big monolithic interpreter. So heres to the team that built PHP.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

And the way that effort was coordinated, because there were no cell phones, there was no internet at the time, you'd go down the building with concern faces and somebody would say, Hey, I'll organize security. This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. 04:01): You find other people and they come together.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge). Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

From Codecademy and Try Ruby , to free programming books and free online courses. Categories Entrepreneurship Leadership « CSS Humor Steve Jobs’ Keynote Speeches » Pingback: How to Determine an Effective Cofounder Match - BizThoughts Mike Lee is an internet entrepreneur, web geek, talent scout & humanistic technologist.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. I'm curious.

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