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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

The shift from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” can happen quickly, and you want to be sure that you choose the best technology for it. All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Let’s call that last one “Facebook scale.”.

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

blog.expensify.com

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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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

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. Or, what do you do if you’re just coming out of school and all you’ve done is Java coursework? technologies (interactivity UI etc.).

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. systems decomposition Not able to think above the level of a single file/class Able to break up problem space and design solution as long as it is within the same platform/technology Able to design systems that span multiple technologies/platforms. Programming. Author of framework.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. Although I have an EE and CS education, my best contribution to technology businesses has been in strategy/sales/marketing/leadership. Big boy applications. What is Drupal?

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

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x