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

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MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. School of Webcraft : Mozilla Foundation’s School of Webcraft is a peer-powered school that offers free web development education.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

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It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. Of course, software consultants make their money by developing software. One major caveat is Google App Engine , which is not compatible with all technologies. Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year.

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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. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Web servers. Java / JVM. Motivation. Since Vert.x Passenger 3.9.5-rc3.

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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. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Web servers. Java / JVM. Motivation. Since Vert.x Passenger 3.9.5-rc3.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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Part of the problem when you know nothing about the tech is that you think you just need “a web developer”. But you’ll quickly learn that all developers are not the same, and there’s a range of skills: front-end, back-end, UI, UX, design, etc. (Chris Dixon recently wrote a great blog, “Who should learn to program?”

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

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Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another. For these engineers, the RDF standard, and out-of-the-box RDF databases, allow them to buy this part of their solution rather than build it. RDFS RDFS introduces the notion of inferencing to the Semantic Web stack, in a gentle way.