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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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

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Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers

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A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008. James Sylvanus There's a free PHP split testing (A/B) library at www.phpscenario.org. I designed it to be a 2-3 minute drop-in to any given php project, with one-line testing for simple A/B cases.

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Which language should my startup use?

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Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. PHP is insecure? These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Ruby on Rails doesnt scale?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said.

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Technology stack choice for startups

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Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. Nov, 2008 (4). Oct, 2008 (16). Sep, 2008 (7). Aug, 2008 (15). Jul, 2008 (18). Jun, 2008 (11).

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. Good stuff.