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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about.

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Startup Resources

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t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). on demand billing and fraud management. Banana Scrum รข?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Use Sendgrid! CVSDude (svn).

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Pat Patrick (2010-06-20) # Im programming in PHP and Java and designing relational and object oriented data bases since 12 years and I do absolutely agree with Drews comments (#50). Dont kill the guy with your demands. Pat Sheridan (2010-06-20) # Thank you!