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If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. A Vocational School for Programmers.
So much of the focus was on how to produce usable softwaredevelopers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.
They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those softwareengineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.
But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real softwaredevelopment here. In my career I’ve seen many times the positive effect of a rich softwaredevelopment discipline, full life cycle, QE vs. The Getty, USC, The Grammys, MTV, and many more giant websites built in L.A.
My conclusion: if you’re a softwareengineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Show you can code in any number of popular web technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc. Why do I say that? In particular, be sure to use the latest Web 2.0+
Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a softwareengineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a softwareengineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.
My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.
I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a softwareengineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid softwareengineers.
Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a softwaredevelopment service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal softwareengineering experience, they can have too high expectations.
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