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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. PHP may not be a great language, but the platform it enables does attract one particular kind of great developer: the cutting edge web gurus who work primarily in javascript, DHTML, and Ajax.

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

blog.expensify.com

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. I just want an AJAX toolkit that i can easily create browser based UIs. It is not really about.Net.

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