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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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From Codecademy and Try Ruby , to free programming books and free online courses. That lack of motivation can make this method fairly time-consuming. But if you’re able to hack it (no pun intended), there are a ton of free resources out there for you. Sometimes having a human being who can answer your questions can help.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

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They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. Or whether it’s a choice between using MySQL vs. Postgres. or add your 2 cents).

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Heres a revised version of what I emailed in response, garnered while building OtherInbox and other Rails apps: First and foremost, I find Rails itself to be very useful for building a product for a lean startup; the expressiveness of Ruby and the conventions of Rails help developers more quickly build a minimum viable product.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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

www.redmonk.com

Ruby on Rails? Steve248 Posted September 7, 2010 at 4:28 pm | Permalink Man what I’d do for a bob… xp Posted September 7, 2010 at 5:22 pm | Permalink Java core to innovation [link] This comment was originally posted on Twitter tguemes Posted September 7, 2010 at 5:32 pm | Permalink Very nice read.

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

www.redmonk.com

Ruby on Rails? Steve248 Posted September 7, 2010 at 4:28 pm | Permalink Man what I’d do for a bob… xp Posted September 7, 2010 at 5:22 pm | Permalink Java core to innovation [link] This comment was originally posted on Twitter tguemes Posted September 7, 2010 at 5:32 pm | Permalink Very nice read.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

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Senior Ruby Engineer. Copyright © 2007–2012 Silicon Florist and Return —Views expressed here are not necessarily those of whom I cover. Training and Development Specialist. Community Manager. Software Engineer. Front End Developer. Marketing Manager. Systems Analyst. Systems Administrator - UNIX. RELEASE ENGINEER.