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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

It's way easier to get your pages setup in these languages than by choosing Java alone. Of course, I'm not sure that anyone chooses Java alone. " With Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails and many other language/framework choices, some aspects of development are significantly faster. They start with lots of other things.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Oracle’s Java API Suit Against Google – Five Years Later

Feld Thoughts

Five years ago, in August 2010, I asked the question Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point? Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. “The s**t finally hits the fan… Thursday August 12, 2010. ” Oracle also got copyrights to the Java APIs.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Sun Microsystems is no more but in the ’90s and early ’00s the Java platform was the gold standard for server-side & workstation applications. Apple’s iOS App platform is most similar to Sun with Java, i.e. using a low/zero margin software business to propel a high-margin hardware business. Read More ».

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). My first time at your blog.