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Tips On Choosing A Control Panel For Your Web Hosting Environment

YoungUpstarts

by Greg Rockwood, community and PR manager at Softsys Hosting. Does it support your preferred database server (MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012, etc.)? It is not an easy decision to choose a correct control panel for your web hosting account – particularly when you have several options available in market.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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We eventually ended up converting everything to SQLAlchemy’s lowest-level language for constructing SQL (one step away from raw SQL). have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. We used SQLAlchemy for our ORM, but I really hate ORM’s and this was just a giant nuisance to deal with.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm. It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years. For years.

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

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Very helpful and worth taking time to go through most of them. Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , Amazing list.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Superficially it sort of worked, but the underlying code is so full of fundamental coding errors (God classes, SQL Injection opportunities, massive global dependencies etc.) I dont know how he chose the person to do it.