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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

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

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. Udacity : Udacity is a great resource for finding programming courses, including Intro to Computer Science, Web Application Engineering, and Software Testing.

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

sockets, TCP connection) • Shader programming • Unreal Engine. Preferred experience with: • Voxel modeling • Digital Signal Processing • Visual Studio • Network programming (e.g. Our clients are mostly located in North America and Europe.

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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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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Consider, for example, that Facebook recently created their own implementation of PHP that can significantly reduce costs for “Facebook scale” companies, while promising a smoother transition for those of us who choose PHP now. One major caveat is Google App Engine , which is not compatible with all technologies. MVC vs. REST?

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines.

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