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CloudCARDS | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full-time | Limerick or Dublin, Ireland CloudCARDS.ie is an aviation startup founded in 2013 that is disrupting the asset…

Yeah probably. Seems it was mostly BASIC + asm for that age range. Rock on GWBasic! It's probably where you learnt to use your first GOTO like a billion times :)

Yes, I voted for BASIC too but ASM was what I first messed around in on an Amstrad 512k using the manual that it came with. Remember when manuals had pin outs of all the ports and …

Me too. then I discovered you could call interrupts in quickbasic and you could inject hand rolled ASM and execute it so upgraded to 4.5 and never looked back. rapid prototyping in…

A good point and they're making things simpler in the process - here's the product, it's $35 and this is what it does - no more messages, reminders about a pro version and removal …

Snap... then moved to QuickBasic..ooooooooowwww. Remember the bundles source for gorillas,money and nibbles?

Where's Assembler in the list :) I loved me some MASM. Did no one learn this in the late 80's early 90's? It must still be used a lot for embedded systems ... What I liked about it…

You can look at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... from some useful tips from the wisdom of Joel Spolsky

+1 for redmine. Had it installed on Windows 2003 server and used its superb built in migration tools to go from mantisbt. Used it for about 18months and its actively maintained. Gr…

Two good Microsoft technology ones (ASP.NET/MVC/C# etc) http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ Yahoo user interface blog: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/ Jeff …

Interesting concept and sounds like a good way to start as a newbie angel investor.

I like it :) drop me a message offline (see my profile) perhaps we can share our research?

Good summary of my waffle ;) I suppose the stats of startups making it out of the 5th year is appalling. Less than 10% as I recall which may be similar to US but every extra hurdle…

Thanks for the link to angellist - something I aspire to join but as I said in my post, you have to be approved to get listed and one of the requirements is you're not a newbie - y…

Good question: Yes I was in a UK startup. I feel that the risk adverse nature/attitude we came across significantly impedes innovation in the UK (remember this is in my experience …

Thanks for the links - I came across those during my research and they all seem to links angels to entrepreneurs/companies looking for investment. I am more interesting in seed/sta…

Background of question: I am in the fortunate position of recently exiting a business I co-founded in 2002 in the UK healthcare technology sector that sold to one of the top 3 US h…

In the EU? try Cyprus...

Agreed. Long morning showers have a profound effect on my ability to concentrate, meditate, think through problems and interestingly nearly 100% of my best ideas and solutions to p…