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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US.

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

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One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). So the cool kids aren’t using Java. Or are they? Many of the hottest NoSQL technologies are written in Java.

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

www.redmonk.com

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). So the cool kids aren’t using Java. Or are they? Many of the hottest NoSQL technologies are written in Java.

Java 43
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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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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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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. Oh, and don’t mind our completely deregulated electrical grid designed around a paranoid fear of national government and shameless prioritization of profits over people. We live along a well-traveled ambulance path. Come to Austin!