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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While I was still in high school, I became a Java "expert" during a time when there was no such thing.

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

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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. Alcides Fonseca.

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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?"

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn.