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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

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Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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The generally accepted hourly wage calculation used by the staffing industry is Annual Salary divided by 2000 Hours. If you sum up these costs and divide them by 2000 Hours then you are looking at $1.15 Adjust the annual average to what it should be on an hourly basis. So for someone making $70k that comes out to around $35/hr.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

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V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Maybe it is a 20% project by a junior engineer which he has on the back burner for the moment. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above. Also, there have been, are, and will be many zero day exploits for PHP. Yes, exposing bugs is great. dawmail333.

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