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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

I think one of the most important things is there's a lot of focus on metrics, and I think metrics is important, but we get caught up in these sort of acronyms and these buzzwords, but really it's all about asking the right questions, right? It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me.

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Twitter Link Roundup #153 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The only metric that matters – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Interesting graphic comparing PHP, Ruby and Python – [link]. A Startup Founder’s Priorities – [link]. Have India’s poor become human guinea pigs?

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

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. I personally use Scout because of great Ruby integration options. Unless you own a hosting company, “number of servers owned” is not a metric your CEO cares about. Greatest Hits.

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