Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? What if someone wanted to write their module in OOP style?
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." We had closer to several hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process.
techcocktail.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Make sure you have the right developer(s) on board in whatever capacity you need them, whether it’s a part time HTML or Wordpress developer or a full time PHP wiz.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
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blog.wepay.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
In addition to my first official commit, WePay also just hired Rasmus Lerdorf , the creator of the PHP programming language. At some point, I’ll write another post about what a non-engineer does, or should do, during the early stages of product development. So, without further ado, what I’ve learned: Don’t be Helpless.
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