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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. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. are built on Drupal.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Show you can code in any number of popular web technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc. Get involved in open source, as much as you can.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Unfortunately, in the world of software engineering, that’s a very real risk. Is the technology open sourced? Java, PHP, Python, Ruby? Compiled vs. interpreted?

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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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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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups.