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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

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Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Within the same report in 2018 over a span of four months was 600 plus vacancies for software engineer or software developer.

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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

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The companies that ‘rent’ these products on a SaaS basis enjoy the highest standard in software without the costs, risks and tech quandaries of in-house development. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. The build-it-yourself era of payment software development is coming to a close and for good reason. “We

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

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The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development. Prototype development, materials expenses, and testing. Manufacturing process development.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

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Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers. The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. Image source ). What will I do today?

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#askadeveloper Your Web and Programming Questions

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Lara Fields is the product architect at Palo Alto Software. She has been working in software development since 2000, with extensive experience in website design and functionality. Shad Stafford is the lead software developer at Palo Alto Software.

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5 reasons VCs should favor code-savvy founders

The Next Web

Venture capitalists look for a variety of intangibles when evaluating the entrepreneurs who they consider backing — vision, passion, integrity, confidence — but how many look for a background in software development? The software developer community is pretty tight-knit — word will get around if a workplace is awesome or awful.

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The 4 Best Cities In America For Startups

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These cities won’t cost you an arm and a leg, but you’ll find that there is still plenty of opportunities in their local software development industry. If you’re looking for people to be a part of your team, Seattle software development community is a great place to start.

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