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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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

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oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. 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 Alcides Fonseca. William Pearson.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

This is very much like the versioning built into some REST based interfaces in order to support compatibility with older client applications. Android Web views have the benefit of being able to expose an entire Java class to JavaScript. On the Java side, the WebViewInterface is a standard Java class.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Did they use bcrypt/scrypt/etc to properly secure passwords at rest, and did they patch these vulnerabilities fast enough to prevent attackers from pulling them off of the wire? Greatest Hits.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Save the rest for later. No need to even tell people about the rest unless theyre really really interested. Then carry on with the rest. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.