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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism.

Guinea 200
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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash). Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Training and Development Specialist.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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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.

Security 101
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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? Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " If you just have an idea, my advice is to outsource the dev of the minimum viable product to someone on RentaCoder or GetaCoder. You, a creative guy?

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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. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity.

Java 107
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Insightful.