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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. The web development continuum has sound, safe, but stodgy on one side and shiny-obsession at the risk of unknown stability on the other.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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In addition, if you know any developers you should ask them where to post your project or job up and where they recommend you go to meet other developers. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. Be sure to post your opportunity here.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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Dont be afraid of developing a contrarian viewpoint on what type of person is perfect for your company as CTO, and how youre going to find that person. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Many startups use Ruby on Rails. I am currently engaged in a Ruby on Rails security safari, and anticipate publishing the results of that in February, after responsible disclosure to the relevant security teams. Greatest Hits.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. As a developer I’ve probably had contact with 300 open source projects, components, and applications. 29 Rob on 08.11.09

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers. The average Joe Developer/QA professional seldom opts to use one of the aforementioned vendor’s solutions, preferring to use a self-built solution, usually based on open-source JMeter.

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