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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? Avoid them.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

.” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Framework Benchmarks.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

What are some sites or companies in the same space? Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Most new sites need to account for mobile delivery – but on the other hand, not every MVP needs both desktop and mobile versions. What channels will you use (e.g.,

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. If you don’t know WHY you’re adding features don’t do it just because you have a development team.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Jeff Atwood is the person responsible for product and user experience across all of their sites. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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