Community Java Open Source Software Engineering 
blog.socaltech.com
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Or, what do you do if you’re just coming out of school and all you’ve done is Java coursework? Get involved in open source, as much as you can.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
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 But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide.
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crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Unfortunately, in the world of software engineering, that’s a very real risk. Is the technology open sourced? Does it support open protocols and standards?
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 18, 2013
But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. Big boy applications.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. This is great info.
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