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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. All participants have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. I'm primarily looking for front end developers who are experts in AS3, and back end developers who are proficient at PHP and MySQL. I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? Perfect timing.

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Beauty Pays: Beautiful Websites (and People) Get Better Results

ConversionXL

So before you even hire this person to sell your home, you already have a positive impression of that person in your mind.” The year year is 2007, it’s early July and you are on the market for a new mobile phone. PHP and jQuery. PHP an scripting language and jQuery and JavaScript library.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

Posted by: Serkan | October 4, 2007 2:05 AM Sorry Serkan - next one will be faster out of the door! Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 2:18 AM Interesting post, Matt. Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 6:31 AM Great stuff Matt, cheers for sharing this, appreciated. More of this and faster, please;).

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Prior to the iPhone’s introduction in mid-2007, designers could rely on windows at least 700 pixels wide (if they ignored accessibility). To hire people to crop pictures for customers who will not know they are dissatisfied? Is that what you tell your clients? Innovation. Illustrator. Inspiration. Internet Explorer. JavaScript.

Mobile 101
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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

I would never hire a “.NET I will hire a great developer, and I do not really care which language he used the most lately, as long as he is great in it. Dec, 2007 (16). Nov, 2007 (15). Oct, 2007 (22). Sep, 2007 (11). Aug, 2007 (14). Jul, 2007 (11). Jun, 2007 (12). May, 2007 (22).