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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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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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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. I do consult people, however I am not looking for work right now. THANK YOU!!!

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? I mean a rockstar developer, you need a reliable, steady, bull-like technical partner. Even a beginner and mediocre developer can instill life into your mock-ups and bring the MVP live. Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x