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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

But he wanted to be able to scale his application fast in case of high demand, and didn’t want the hassle of maintaining too much hardware at the same time. The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. For $35, people can get a printed copy of a tutorial so that they can use while creating a website. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. All of them for free. Today, SitePoint gets 2.5M

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

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework? Web Development Tools: Sendgrid [link] – Sends transactional email (signed up, forgot password, notifications) on behalf of you application. Reply Roman Gaponov , on February 28, 2011 at 1:50 am said: Steve, Very interesting list of resources.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Amazon EC2. on demand billing and fraud management. Web Development Tools. Singly : Provides your app with your personal Data from foursquare, instagram, etc etc. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? Use Sendgrid! Jing Project. Snapz Pro X.