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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

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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. 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. are built on Drupal.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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For the tech savvy this might include reading an intro book on programming. For the less tech savvy check for a summary and history of the programming language on Wikipedia. Don’t be too specific – you do not need to include the programming language, etc. at this stage. This is true in most, but not all cases.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. PHP Developer at Ultra Logistics (Fai. check them out at: www.amt.in I donĀ“t know what to do.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

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Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. If it doesnt require a whiteboard, it doesnt count.

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CEO Friday: Why we donā€™t hire.NET programmers

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But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. This attitude is plain stupid arrogance.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).