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David Heinemeier Hansson, a computer programming star who created the Ruby on Rails website development framework, which currently provides the foundation for some of the Web’s most popular destinations, including Twitter and Hulu. Hansson is a partner in the influential development firm Basecamp (called 37signals until 2014). Hansson doesn’t talk
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folklore.orgLivingston: Did a lot of people not have resources to implement your ideas at the time, because the Web was still emerging? Greenspun: People used to say, "Why should we pay you guys $30,000 to $50,000 a month to do this thing, when we can just hire our own programmer?" What I would tell them is, "Each company has one class of stars. In some
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Software development is an iterative design process. In order to achieve true iteration and realize the value of fast feedback, its activities need to be performed with a single team (having a common reporting line) as far as possible. Many internet business and independent software vendors (ISVs) already operate in this way.