The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development.
Diego Basch
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
Not many people know the story of what would become one of the most widely used software products ever. I learned about it from a case study for my Software Project Management class in 1997, what follows is my summary ( original here , or Google it). Their software development process improved tremendously over the next decade.
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Software By Rob
OCTOBER 26, 2010
Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. The following is a guest article by Dave Rodenbaugh of Lessons of Failure.
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.
Diego Basch
MARCH 4, 2011
Fast forward to 1997. If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem. I started coding in the 80s. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.
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