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More Coders. More Diversity.

Feld Thoughts

If a client hires an apprentice, Techtonic does not charge a conversion fee, which can run into the thousands for a junior developer hired through a traditional recruiter. I think many software developers share that sentiment. The post More Coders. I learned to code doing it on the job.” More Diversity.

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

What will the advancement of such platforms do to the skill requirements for developers going forward? Will we ever see "Peak Software Developer"? Despite the app building apps, new development platforms like mobile reverse this trend.

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

Let''s hear it, coders. And then there''s the time-honored, if not-necessarily-reliable, option of just throwing as much hardware as possible at the problem. And yet as long as there are compile delays and testing latencies, engineers will always have an excuse when they''re slacking off. Photo by Flickr user Phil Heaberlin , CC 2.0.

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San Antonio-based Assembla Buys MyGet

SiliconHills

Assembla, a software development platform based in San Antonio, has announced plans to acquire MyGet, a software management company, based in Belgium. Assembla, founded in 2005 and acquired by Scaleworks in 2016, is a software as a service company that sells a platform that allows coders […].

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. In my career I’ve seen many times the positive effect of a rich software development discipline, full life cycle, QE vs. The Getty, USC, The Grammys, MTV, and many more giant websites built in L.A.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. You might be tempted to skip hiring a manager altogether, tap into the startup spirit and “do it yourself&# (that is: manage your offshore developers yourself, remotely). Managing people is hard, managing developers is harder.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

A second example that is more esoteric but perhaps a leading indicator, is the rise of continuous integration in software development, not just with one’s own development team but with third-party software and tools. Several times a year, I hear about a new service that is all the rage with teens and tweens.