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Ten Things I’ve Learned in a Start-Up

Ten things I’ve learned as a developer at WooMe:

Be clear what your dir­ec­tion is. Identify your key pro­pos­i­tion and focus on it. Don’t get dis­trac­ted by unre­lated fea­tures — some­body else is prob­ably already doing those bet­ter than you.
Be mer­ci­less with fea­tures that don’t cut it. No mat­ter how much you like it, if your audi­ence doesn’t

Perl on Rails — Why the BBC Fails at the Internet

Perl on Rails is a pro­ject by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that rep­lic­ates the Ruby On Rails MVC frame­work in Perl. They’re obvi­ously rather proud of them­selves, and I under­stand that intern­ally the pro­ject is mak­ing waves. Whilst I applaud the tech­nical achieve­ment of the indi­vidual developers, I deplore