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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building. When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. ” It’s true. It was easy peasy.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP.

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Beauty Pays: Beautiful Websites (and People) Get Better Results

ConversionXL

The New York Times writes that it is “ …gorgeous, elegant and very, very smart. PHP and jQuery. PHP an scripting language and jQuery and JavaScript library. PHP: jQuery: A-Z Lyrics and Metro Lyrics. There is no question which one looks the best (and also happened to sell way more than others…).

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7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers

mashable.com

More Web Development Resources from Mashable: - 10 Intermediate and Advanced Tips from PHP Masters - 5 Website Designs That Blew Us Away - HOW TO: Make Your WordPress Blog More Like Tumblr - 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters - CSS Inventor Talks About the Web’s Visual Future [VIDEO] Image courtesy of Flickr, Michos C.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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Programming Language - many top engineers I spoke with prefer python and dont like working in PHP. Social Good - a surprisingly high percentage of engineers I spoke with placed importance on having a positive impact on a community or society. Personal Lifestyle - commute is a factor in their decision process. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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View Comments Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] View Comments Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You Might Have Missed View Comments Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich View Comments PHP, MySQL & AJAX Developer at Comentum Corp. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B.