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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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For the tech savvy this might include reading an intro book on programming. For the less tech savvy check for a summary and history of the programming language on Wikipedia. Don’t be too specific – you do not need to include the programming language, etc. at this stage. This is true in most, but not all cases.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

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I completed my Bachelors in 3 years (another story for another time) and so was able to go directly into a professional Masters program (also at Carnegie Mellon) and complete a masters degree without having to apply for a new visa. Fortunately, I was accepted into the program and that allowed me to legally stay in the United States.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

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Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. systems programming Doesnt know what a compiler, linker or interpreter is Basic understanding of compilers, linker and interpreters. Software Engineering.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.