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How To Get Your Web Development Career Started

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are a self-taught web developer or have spent a few years in college learning all of the basics and getting experience, you might be struggling to get your career started. There are plenty of tech jobs out there right now because of the high demand for new technology and websites. Try Some Open Source.

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Hiring A Web Developer: 11 Questions You Must Ask Ahead Of Time

YoungUpstarts

If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. To help with your vetting process, here are eleven questions to ask your would-be developers before making a decision: 1. By Uri Foox, founder of Pixafy. What do you do?

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. in Computer Science.

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[Infographic] Reinventing The Internet With Blockchain

YoungUpstarts

Fast forward to current day, we now use centralized hosting services to host our websites, and other services from large corporations such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others which are essentially huge servers, centralizing the web. The traditional internet is built on open-source protocols , such as TCP/IP, HTTP, or SMTP.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness.

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies. But where do the software development companies in Southern California congregate?