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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eric, love the blog.

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

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Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. I remember answering "What security model?"

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. 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.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. But this blog put into better perspective. One last thought. Eric, great post.

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

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Remember Java? February 19, 2009 9:17 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)