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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Intrepid – Mobile development. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. However, as the complexity grows, the pool of competent developers shrinks.