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. What’s in demand? and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
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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socialmatchbox.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.
www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).
prosperati.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
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. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.
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 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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