Startup Category

Geek Chat: Of Programming Languages

In: Geek, Startup

Met up with Sau Sheong over coffee during a weekday evening. I have been following him on his blog and twitter since meeting him last year at a Yahoo developers event. Much have changed since then. It was interesting to know that Sau Sheong is into consulting startup, putting his knowledge and experience into good [...]

Chris Anderson Free Book

In: Geek, Interesting, Startup

Free book and free audio book by Chris Anderson. Manage for Abundance. Free.

The Hunt for Good Developers

In: Geek, Startup

Of the pool of graduate yearly, a portion will be from the Engineering Faculty, or Maths. Of which another fraction will be doing computing or have experience in coding or software developement. And of this numbers, a group will be deemed good developers. And of these good developers, there is this crazy few who are willing to do a startup.

Links of Interest #1

In: Interesting, Startup

Links of the Week #1. Of Pycon, YouNoodle, Doostang, Pun, and HTML

Paul Graham on Trying Times

In: Geek, News, Startup

Paul Graham on Trying Times: Things can look bright.

Entrepreneurs in Trying Times

In: Geek, Interesting, Singapore, Startup

Entrepreneurs in Trying Times. Who Dares Wins.

Certain things in life eludes my understanding. Looking at the recent press release from MDA. Singapore Film Commission awards S$2.25 million to 9 directors under the New Feature Film Fund In summary (and as reported in Channelnewsasia.com): SINGAPORE: Nine budding directors have received S$250,000 each from the Singapore Film Commission under the New Feature Film [...]

Top Traits of a Web Developer

In: Geek, Interesting, Startup, Theories

Top Traits of a Web Developer. My take on the traits that makes a good web developer. Appreciate infrastructure, understand web analytics, love metrics and optimization and ability to accept stupidity.

My take from the breakout session from Unconference 2008: Valuing and Investing in Internet Companies

Unconference 2008: The first 5 startup pitches featuring: podfire.sg, zopim.com, qweki.com, patsnap.com and Hiberater.

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ThinkingNectar talks about the interest of Chin Yong, a PHP/Python/Web developer residing in Singapore. Life, society, and codes should entails most of what goes between the ears of this coffee drinker.

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