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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

SoCal Startup Event Calendars The following three sources are great at finding a lot of the startup events going on in Los Angeles and SoCal: SoCalTech.com Events TechZulu Events Los Angeles Startup Digest Even with all of those, they still often don't have all of the different meetings, especially smaller events listed.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. Often good topics and interesting networking. Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers. In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me. Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java.

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) As an example, I did that as a search on SoCal Tech Central and Software Development Companies really didn't come up with much. or focused on industry or type of company.

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LAMPsig

SoCal Tech Calendar

He is currently working for a startup company in the multiplayer social network gaming space. He was also one of the founding Lampsig members, and has previously given lampsig talks on PHP, SVG with Ajax, and Xen. Speaker: David Rolston has a long history of web development that dates back to the earliest days of the WWW.

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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. Social networking. The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Streaming media.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. I'm primarily looking for front end developers who are experts in AS3, and back end developers who are proficient at PHP and MySQL. It makes you want to move north!

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