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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

Software By Rob

The memories I have of Joel on Software , especially from 2001-2004, run deep. These were my formative years as a developer, and Joel published some of his best work during this time. As if every article re-shaped my thinking about the software development process. Surely you’ve heard the news by now.

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A Micropreneur Blueprint: How to Stay Solo, Bleed Passion, and.

Software By Rob

Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. If you want to read the manifesto and don’t want to bother with the rest of this post, simply go here and click “Yes, please write this manifesto.&# You don’t even need to register.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. So the cool kids aren’t using Java.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs?

Software By Rob

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. I’ve been posting more and more recently, and my audience has grown faster than at any point in this blog’s history.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory. TripAdvisor’s Future.