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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

People forgot that Fred also wrote “Web Second.” ” So I’ve had to encourage an entire cohort of startups that I’ve met not to ignore the power of the web. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. They do both well.

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. So, you need to develop a product? By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. $canonicalServerName.$requestUri;

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. DoubleClick, like other competitors, had already underwent a successful IPO and their market cap was in the billions and their resources were virtually unlimited. After writing this, I think I smell something.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. In all of our tests, the database server (MySQL or MongoDB) used very little CPU time; and WeigHTTP was not starved of CPU resource. Motivation. getQueryParameters().getParameterValue("queries").toInt(1);

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