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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Your potential customer base grows as tools become simpler and easier to use, even non-coders can build a professional website with minimal effort. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website.

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How to hack the recruitment process to find the best developers for your startup or agency

The Next Web

The right developer on the other hand can start you off on the correct footing, pivot any incorrect tech choices, network to pull in more skilled coders and motivate them to do their best work. Not PHP, not ASP.net, not XYZ tech. ” RC: “[pause]… PHP?” Go to the coders. We use Python.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. The So Cal engineering gap? They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. PHP Veteran. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. PHP Veteran. PHP Veteran.

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

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain. Take good notes!