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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. Both Betsy and I come from entrepreneurial backgrounds before starting TTS.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

If your developer knows ruby-on-rails but doesn’t care about the application you are creating, then there is no guarantee that their work will be as precise or consistent as you need – or that they will go the extra mile. Just like in basketball, there are the various positions because each team member has their own set of skills.

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

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

­om migrated off Drupal. Drupal worked for both of us for a while, but there are now better alternativ ­es: [link] ­ckennedy.o ­rg/Drupal- ­rg/Drupal- ­7-Reasons- ­to-Switch erickennedy: Great advice, Mariam.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. Ruby on Rails. This is Signal vs. Noise , a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more. Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. Jobs: See more on our Job Board. The unimportance of product names. Apr 27 2010. Get things done.