At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Remember Hamlet? Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. Neither assumption proved remotely accurate. MORE >>

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While I was still in high school, I became a Java "expert" during a time when there was no such thing. Ive updated the "official" conference bio below but otherwise the text remains unchanged from that original essay.) MORE >>

At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. The most important step in evaluating a candidate is conducting a good technical interview. Brains. Drive. MORE >>

Remember Java? Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, February 12, 2009 What is a market? Having worked with dozens of founders over the past few months, I think I can safely say, without naming any names, that most of us are not too clear on what were talking about when it comes to markets. Is a market a set of paying customers? Tough sell. MORE >>

I have worked in agencies here and is more or less the same where a designer usually has to code and take care of the development of the project, be an expert in Java, AS3 and a guru in CSS, and please be younger than 30.  in Sweden.  In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. MORE >>