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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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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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If the business value is known, measured and high, and the implementation is in the expensive/risky category then technical leadership needs to regroup on a strategy. Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options. agile software development. (46). software development. (47). web development. (12).

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? I mean a rockstar developer, you need a reliable, steady, bull-like technical partner. Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x