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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Let’s face it – you’re probably an excellent salesperson, a great networker and a capable businessman, but software development is a whole other story. Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community. Open Source Code. Consider Your Team.

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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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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

These are the software folks who a few years ago may have been a Director of Software Engineering, VP of Software Engineering, or even just a Software Development Manager — and they’re now running their own companies (usually, a combination of local talent + outsourcing of grunt software work overseas).

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Many startups use Ruby on Rails. I am currently engaged in a Ruby on Rails security safari, and anticipate publishing the results of that in February, after responsible disclosure to the relevant security teams. by Patrick.

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

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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