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What Do Web Developers Do Exactly?

YoungUpstarts

The job outlook for web developers is better than many occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the job market for developers to grow by 13 percent from 2018 to 2028. Web development is a good industry to get into but what do web developers do, exactly? What Is a Web Developer? Types of Web Developers.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

2012 has proved to be a great year for developers – at least as far as financial compensation goes. The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today. “I’m now making double my salary thanks to the knowledge gained.”

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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? The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. So began Developer Boot Camp.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. There have been some pretty good grass roots efforts at creating more development talent in the community—but they’ve been on smaller scales and heavily reliant on the volunteer efforts of a small number of dedicated people.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Hazards of hiring by Eric Sink — Great tips, including some specific to hiring developers (for more on the latter, here’s another ). salary, benefits). I don’t care if this person is going to spend 60 hours a week writing inscrutable code that only a Ruby interpreter could love. Potential earnings (e.g.

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