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Software Development Estimates, Where Do I Start?

Diego Basch

For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. “Software development” is such a huge endeavor that it doesn’t even make sense to talk about estimates without an understanding of the kinds of problems software can solve.

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

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Blogs Michael Coté James Governor Stephen OGrady GreenMonk RedMonk Rollup RedMonk TV RedMonk James Governor's Monkchips An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence About & Contact « I’m Back, with a Start: Are You Ready for a 9 Day Sustainability Summit at the Prince of Wales’ Gaff?

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

www.redmonk.com

Blogs Michael Coté James Governor Stephen OGrady GreenMonk RedMonk Rollup RedMonk TV RedMonk James Governor's Monkchips An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence About & Contact « I’m Back, with a Start: Are You Ready for a 9 Day Sustainability Summit at the Prince of Wales’ Gaff?

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Life, the Universe and Technical Interviews

Diego Basch

Inside its computer resides the Big Developer Matrix. As you can infer from its name it is fairly large, and it contains information about developers. More specifically software developers, because it was created by software developers. map(x->x-48).sum()==42?1:0);System.out.print(j);}}.

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. Java’s libraries were rich and powerful. It sold miserably. Lesson Learned.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

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

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Expensify Blog. 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.

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