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What Do Web Developers Do Exactly?

YoungUpstarts

The job outlook for web developers is better than many occupations. Web development is a good industry to get into but what do web developers do, exactly? What Is a Web Developer? A web developer is someone who writes the code that makes a website or web service do what it does. Types of Web Developers.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

One of the problems they run into is building a web site. ——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. What are the steps in building a web site?”

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Ruby on Rails: Five tips for cleaner controller code

Austin Startup

For handling requests, move the business logic out of controllers and into plain old Ruby objects like Service objects (app/services) or models (app/models) that don’t inherit from ActiveRecord, and call that in your controller to handle the business logic. Rule of thumb: your controller actions should be no more than 5–7 lines of code.

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Intermediate+ Web Developer

Transformify

The company is looking to hire a tal-ented Intermediate+ Web Developer. We have over 200 employees spread across 30 different countries. All employees work from home. We develop custom software appli-cations for clients in North America and Europe. Work hours are flexible and projects are interest-ing and challenging. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g.,

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today. Resources coding One Month Rails programming Ruby on Rails startup web development Y Combinator'

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community. Java, C# and.net tend to be more stable, while languages such as Ruby on Rails or node.js Ruby with Ruby on Rails Framework. Similar to Python, Ruby was designed to be as intuitive and enjoyable to use as possible.

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

YoungUpstarts

School of Webcraft : Mozilla Foundation’s School of Webcraft is a peer-powered school that offers free web development education. Mozilla Developer Network : Find plenty of resources for learning web technologies on Mozilla’s Developer Network, including lessons in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Hackety Hack!

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