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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. or focused on industry or type of company.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. That little online book company. Not Google.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. How did you start company? Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? How did that happen?

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. Even the most conservative companies began adopting the open-source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to dynamically create and maintain their websites.

IBM 100
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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

My company, TechEmpower , recently added a few top notch developers, but it wasn’t easy to find just the right people. I'm primarily looking for front end developers who are experts in AS3, and back end developers who are proficient at PHP and MySQL. I took a look at TechEmpower, and it looks like you guys are doing great!

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Orange County alone is home to more than 300 medical device companies with world-renowned leadership in ophthalmic and cardiovascular devices – a far cry from the “silicone” valley that Ms. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Things change.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. How we designed the tests. PHP 5.3.10.

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