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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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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009.

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

blog.expensify.com

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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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. blogs Has heard of them but never got the time. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. 2 n (Level 0) n 2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log(n) (Level 3) Comments. J Date, Thinking Forth, Little Schemer.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

[Originally posted on July 25, 2011 on the IndexTank blog, now down. There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. I want to see a blog and/or a Twitter account. Well, you get my point. Far from it.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented a rather dysfunctional conversation going on between software consultants and you, their client. I originally promised that in Part 2 I would go into some specific software products. Blogs just like this one! Once again, check the blogs. Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. I remember answering "What security model?"