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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Remember Java? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? .

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management.