SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

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. There are LOTs of language and frameworks to choose from.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They will have the title Lead or Manager. It's going to be a numbers game to find the right person that way, but still quite doable. Tactical advisors are also going to be already developing or leading development full-time at a startup. They should only be a year or two removed from full-time hands on.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. In some ways, this frees us from worrying as much about the specific framework that's being used. Most startups do not get a chance to move from one framework to another.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 19, 2016

I’ve had lots of conversations with fellow CTOs about the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks. Some really appreciate the value that they bring to help them understand performance characteristics of different frameworks. Frankly, those two statements are often correlated. It is a viable contender for all sorts of development efforts.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need?

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