crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Is the technology open sourced? Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Software Engineering. source code version control Folder backups by date VSS and beginning CVS/SVN user Proficient in using CVS and SVN features. scripting No knowledge of scripting tools Batch files/shell scripts Perl/Python/Ruby/VBScript/Powershell Has written and published reusable code. Author of framework. Knowledge.

Software Review 108

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. are built on Drupal.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

NET developer” or a “J2EE developer”, or a “Ruby developer”. Specifically, MySpace were driven by bad business decisions (like using a 3rd party package for its core functionality - the social engine), and bad management and leadership (it is owned by an old-media corporation, which is a firm believer in pre-web2.0 blog-engine(18).

Technology 40

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Engine Yard Adds JRuby, Heroku Adds Python and Django. aws , git , google analytics , heroku , ruby on rails. open source. Be One of the First to Try This New Sentiment Analysis Tool From Proliphiq. Can Bitbucket Challenge GitHub with Free Repositories? « Prior Post. and tagged with. Subscribe. E-mail This.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. He says that intentional Web 2.0 Is It Sticky? JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. As they were trying to get basic stuff to work, they spent time searching for and then reading the full posts and comments.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I started out as a consultant, where I would literally be under the hood tuning the engine and fixing the things for the clients. WordPress is an open source project that was started by Matt Mullenweg leaving a comment on a blog. John Jantsch: Is that Ruby? Troy Dean: No, it’s not Ruby.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

It''s an especially relevant question for me as I''ve recently joined the board of the Bronx Academy for Software Engineering , one of two software focused high schools in NYC. In a way, schools need to start thinking like companies built around the distribution of open source software companies.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. Ruby on Rails? By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] By ?????????????

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. Ruby on Rails? By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] By ?????????????

Java 43

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

Technical Review 84

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

By the way, my friend Jed Christensen has a killer blog post on 37signal’s financials where he walks you through how he reverse engineered their numbers. Microsoft will also have to commit to porting Ruby to.NET and supporting RoR and Get Real throughout the firm. development framework and write a book.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain.

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