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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 16th – 22nd

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd If I wind up selling, I’ve failed in some way.” xs2La5.

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

The term Domain-Driven Design was originally coined by Eric Evans in his book, “Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software” which came out in 2004, so this isn’t a new concept. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Id like to specifically acknowledge: Tom Walker of the Work Less Institute for his help in providing documents and reviewing this article; Sara Robinson for multiple reviews and revisions, not to mention putting up with incessant talk about dusty old research; The IGDA for providing me a bigger soapbox. Acknowledgments. Post to Twitter.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The name was inspired by the term software development kit which programmers use to more quickly create software through pre-written code functions. Similarly, StartupDevKit helps startups develop and grow quicker, easier, and smarter with templates, guides, videos, articles, lists, training, and mentoring.

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

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET This is probably the stupidest article I’ve read today, and I thought Scoble was going to bring home the prize, but nope. Matt Sherman.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. From their article: Got 990 free hours? Yet that’s how long it takes the typical startup to hire 12 engineers. Ditto for Apple. Not likely. And office rents?