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Lessons Learned: About the author

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He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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

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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. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. What is customer development?

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?"