https://www.startupcto.com/ 2026-04-30T21:33:02+00:00 https://www.startupcto.com/ https://www.startupcto.com/lib/tpl/scto/images/favicon.ico text/html 2026-04-30T20:41:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/sample-job-descriptions/home?rev=1777581674 Good Job Descriptions sample-job-descriptions index Writing a Good Job Description There are several keys to writing a good job description, at least for technical roles. - Lead in with what the engineer is going to get out of the role. Try to be specific. Working with the latest technology? Wonderful training or learning opportunities? text/html 2026-04-30T19:18:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/home?rev=1777576696 Welcome to StartupCTO StartupCTO is a collection of my 'notes from the trenches' on the technical aspects of building a successful Internet startup: everything from finding good engineers to creating HTML emails. The tech is biased toward the stacks that I like (LAMP on the backend; HTML5/CSS3/jQuery on the frontend; CentOS and FreeBSD on the servers), but I've tried to include information on the 'softer' side of engineering too. text/html 2026-04-30T16:12:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/about?rev=1777565545 About StartupCTO Welcome! StartupCTO is dedicated to helping technology startups and other small development teams create better software, faster. Building good software quickly is hard, and even companies as large and experienced as Google have trouble with it. text/html 2026-04-30T15:38:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/centos/adding-formatting-a-new-drive?rev=1777563538 Adding & Formatting a New Drive Under CentOS I always have trouble remembering the magic set of incantations required to add a new drive in CentOS... particularly without rebooting. Here's what I usually do. Note this makes some assumptions: * You want to use LVM so you can expand/contract the size of the disk later. text/html 2026-04-30T15:35:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/macosx/setting-up-a-socks-proxy-in-mac-osx?rev=1777563304 Setting up a SOCKS proxy in Mac OS X If you're somewhere that has a network that is partly blocked, but allows SSH, or if you are in a coffee shop or something similar and are worried about security, you can setup a SOCKS proxy to route all your traffic via a remote server that you control, and then out onto the Internet. text/html 2026-04-21T16:55:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/resources/home?rev=1776790542 Resources resources index text/html 2026-04-21T01:13:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/resources/best-of-breed-tools-and-software?rev=1776733992 Best-of-Breed Web Development Tools This is a list of tools, modules and libraries that I consider to be 'best-of-breed' for web development. This is heavily geared toward the areas and platforms that I use regularly; esp. Mac OS X, CentOS, FreeBSD, PHP, Javascript/ text/html 2026-04-20T22:55:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/macosx/install-memcache-on-mamp?rev=1776725702 Installing memcache on Mac OS X & MAMP Installing memcache under MAMP is an absolute pain in the rear. Here's the easiest way I've found to do it. NOTE #1: I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.4 and MAMP Pro 1.8.3 for the install. The instructions will also work for newer versions, such as MAMP 1.9, but you'll need to change some paths, because MAMP 1.9 introduced PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 as options (rather than PHP 4.11 & PHP 5.2), and thus rejiggered its internal structure. text/html 2026-04-20T22:54:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/applications/doku-wiki/upgrading?rev=1776725665 Upgrading DokuWiki This document covers the upgrade procedure for StartupCTO (which is run with DokuWiki). It should be performed whenever a new version of DokuWiki is released. NOTE: 11 Jan 2011 - This is primarily an internal document, but is posted publicly in case it can help someone else upgrade their DokuWiki install. As a commenter notes, the official documentation is at text/html 2026-04-18T15:48:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/sidebar?rev=1776527292 StartupCTO index StartupCTO is a collection of my 'notes from the trenches' on the technical aspects of building a successful Internet startup. If you have something to contribute, or want to update an out-of-date article, please contact me. text/html 2026-04-18T11:56:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/quarterly-review-process?rev=1776513396 Conducting The Quarterly Review w/ Engineers As a manager, I feel it is important to regularly checkin with your development, technical and engineering staff (or any staff, for that matter) to see how things are going. I try to do this either quarterly or semi-annually, and while I like to keep it informal to keep the stress level down, I do make sure to hit on a few points. text/html 2026-04-18T11:56:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/marketing-tech/google-analytics/using-and-standardizing-utm-campaign-variables-in-ga?rev=1776513387 Using and Standardizing UTM Campaign Variables in GA The utm_ variables are one of the most powerful features of Google Analytics. UTM variables allow you to insert your own user-defined campaign source data into Google Analytics reports. For example, if you have an email campaign, you could tag the links in the message so that any website traffic it generates is attributed to the campaign. Same with a banner ad campaign, or even paid links from other sites. text/html 2026-04-18T11:56:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/templates/home?rev=1776513377 Document Templates templates index text/html 2026-04-17T05:58:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/templates/software-requirements-document-template?rev=1776405523 Software Requirement Document Template This is a document template which you can use if you’re writing a Requirements Document for a software project. Copy the contents of this document into your own, and then work through each section to fill in the necessary information. text/html 2026-04-05T07:28:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/wiki/syntax?rev=1775374083 Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing