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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. . * Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Defensibility in Software. Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Communicating with the developers who write code.