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Hiring A Web Developer: 11 Questions You Must Ask Ahead Of Time

YoungUpstarts

If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. To help with your vetting process, here are eleven questions to ask your would-be developers before making a decision: 1. By Uri Foox, founder of Pixafy. What do you do?

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). If your operational processes or software need drastic changes, waiting on a third party can negatively impact time-to-value. Integrations. You need full control.

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

readwrite.com

For HTML5 developers and decision makers, the most important technologies right now are HTML, JavaScript, CSS, mobile platforms and devices and evolving HTML platforms (browsers and operating systems). A growing number of sites are once again buildiing Web apps tested to work in only one browser. Rise Of HTML5 Mobile Platforms.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation.

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How To Close The Books on Your Startup

mashable.com

If you’ve been operating as a Corp, LLC, or Partnership, all business associates need to vote on closing the business. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source.