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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented a rather dysfunctional conversation going on between software consultants and you, their client. I originally promised that in Part 2 I would go into some specific software products. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software. Number of Users.

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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. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). Why do I say that?

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. 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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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. The Grand-daddy. Mass High Tech.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. The Grand-daddy.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. scripting No knowledge of scripting tools Batch files/shell scripts Perl/Python/Ruby/VBScript/Powershell Has written and published reusable code. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. Author of framework. J Date, Thinking Forth, Little Schemer.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.