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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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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

So I chatted with Bryan about Code Climate’s service, which provides automated code review (originally Ruby, but also JavaScript and now PHP). I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with management experience to take ownership of our engineering team.

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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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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

blog.wepay.com

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Non-engineers are not “designers” by default. So, without further ado, what I’ve learned: Don’t be Helpless.

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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

If you think of your company as a ship, the culture is the engine. Zvi frequently participates in thought leadership panels at Tech Cocktail, WordPress DC, DC PHP, and DCRUG events. It’s what keeps your team strong and powers the ship.But without a roadmap, what’s to keep the ship from simply going in circles?

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