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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. However, given that it is a well-understood norm, it gives you a bit of an edge in the PR battle should someone decide to just drop a 0-day on you.). February 1, 2013 at 5:59 am. #. Great post.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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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 My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. The list goes on and on.

Java 107
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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As talented as a programmer/web developer may be, it still takes at least SOME time to grasp the basic concept of what you are wanting to do. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Ive had greak luck with the folks at Odesk, both for web development and things like market research.