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Micropreneur Spotlight Episode 2: Design Proposal Software Bidsketch

Software By Rob

My name is Ruben Gamez and I’m a 32 year old web development manager living in south FL. In my day job I manage a web development department; nights and weekends are spent working on my own product called Bidsketch. While it’s not enough to replace my salary at the moment, I’m ecstatic about the fast start!

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. 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. 50 on a slice of pizza. at 11:23 am [.]

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. Sjoerd Franken.

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