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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

He struggled with that a bit, though, as the technology was all new to him. 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

Don’ts: 1) Don’t hide from customers, his personal cell phone was on SP website 2) Don’t trust vendors and prepay for things. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Motivation.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Motivation.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

They’re being found at breakneck pace right now precisely because they required substantial new security technology to actually exploit, and that new technology has unlocked an exciting new frontier in vulnerability research. Technology marches on. Maybe it is the customer support portal at admin.example.com. Great post.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies. Jusitn Malcolm.

Java 107
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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework? This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Reply Roman Gaponov , on February 28, 2011 at 1:50 am said: Steve, Very interesting list of resources. Reply steveblank , on February 28, 2011 at 2:01 am said: added Django.