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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. More to come.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

The shift in mindset happens when they consider a truly agile application, where e.g., the user interface is configured based on a query to the schema, while it is populated with data from the triple store. The application even continues to work well when new data, and new schema, are merged into the system.

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

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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 My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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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. Python is good for system administration, PHP is great for Web development.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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As talented as a programmer/web developer may be, it still takes at least SOME time to grasp the basic concept of what you are wanting to do. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Harry Kirby Wallace (2010-06-20) # I like #1. "A programmer is much more likely to say, “I can do that!”

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Startup Resources

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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…). Web Development Tools. Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. Agile project management. Agile eLearning.