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South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology MORE
A freelance writer, software coder or a photographer can also be considered in this category. Our world is dominated by brands. Brands are everywhere. Whenever we buy something, we usually check what brand it is. Brands tell us about the existing reputation of the product. MORE
Online websites that promise to teach people how to code, such as Coder Camp, for example, have proved incredibly successful, with nine out of ten graduates finding a position relating to the field within 90 days of completing the 12-week course. MORE
Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […] The post CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders appeared first on SiliconHills. By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman. MORE
Netherlands-based Puck Meerburg , meanwhile, is a talented coder who took us through his journey leading up to his most recent release, a game called CatStacker. One of the most talked about parts of The Next Web Conference Europe 2013 was when two 13-year-olds took to the stage. MORE
Without even pausing to document the process internally, no-one can easily take over the job, if for any reason the cowboy coder is no longer in control. You’ve surely heard the variations on this theme. Ready, fire aim” was popular in the 1990’s, accredited to any of several authors. MORE
There aren’t enough well-qualified Python coders. This gap between the demand and supply is another reason for high pay packages are being offered to Python coders. Programming is at the heart of almost every job, especially in the tech and engineering field. MORE
This is where you find the superb Rails coder, AND the world-class information architect, AND the consummate sales guy, AND the persuasive biz dev gal, AND the brilliant CFO. That is why it is not uncommon to see big enterprise sales people making high six figure, or even seven figure, salaries or commissions, while a neophyte coder might be in the low five figure range. Engineer Irwin Cantor (the coder)? MORE
When I first got started in entrepreneurship, it seemed like everybody in the world was pushing me to become a coder. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt the pain of being a ‘non-technical’ founder working on a technical startup. MORE
That post says: Google App Inventor claims to enable non-coders to develop complete, working Android apps by connecting a series of “blocks.” Did you miss the first Internet boom, back in the 1990s, and fail to make your millions then? Did you not write the cute little iPhone app that made the teenager tons of money? Well cheer up. There is still hope. Read Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App on Mashable. MORE
women-coders women-in-tech tech women-in-computer-science gender-diversity-in-techWomen programmers are almost as rare as unicorns. Take a peek into any developer meeting and you’ll most likely find one or two women… Continue reading on Austin Startups ». MORE
Assembla, founded in 2005 and acquired by Scaleworks in 2016, is a software as a service company that sells a platform that allows coders […]. MORE
They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg. Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. Visit andela.com to learn more, or follow Christina at twitter.com/sasschristina. Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play. MORE
Hiring interdisciplinary coders who could help keep kids really engaged on their self-made computers. Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company. MORE
Every startup team needs a “product owner” role who is not an engineer or coder to collect from customers, prioritize and document required features. MORE
South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology MORE
If anything has held true about the progress of technology over the last 150 years, it is that one generation's bread and butter tasks become automated and the skill level requirement for participating successfully in the workforce is forced up. We've seen disruption by machines among all sorts of human labor, particularly in the area of "making stuff". So will that hold true for ones and zeros? MORE
As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. My answer used to be something like: our job as an entrepreneurs is to organise the factors of production, not be them. But I’ve recently changed my answer to yes regarding the coding question. And no, I haven’t gone out and learned PHP or Ruby or the latest groovy language. My code is the english language. MORE
He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there. This is not a post about a bubble, real or imagined. It’s a lesson from when I was 20 years old. I showed up at MIT as an eager freshman. I was 17, from Dallas, with a nice pair of cowboy boots and long hair. On my first day, at the freshman picnic, I heard that 50% of us would end up in the bottom half of our class. MORE
The purpose of binpress is to save coders time coding by finding existing solutions to time consuming problems. They also have an in-house affiliate program for coders and Internet marketers. - Far from being gimmicky, Binpress can save coders lots of time and money. MORE
But this also produces a natural weakness , and when I look at what made me a successful entrepreneur — not just a great coder — it’s that I acknowledged and overcame that weakness. MORE
Can we afford to wait for the rise of these coders to attend the workforce? Therein lies the need for the citizen coder. Self-taught and digitally native, the citizen coder is a symbol of 21st century success and a ready-made solution to a yawning skills gap. MORE
Developer mentors and judges from AT&T, i.am.angel, Google, Scopely, CGI, Factual, and ESRI and the City and County of LA will support coders during the weekend. Not a coder? Tomorrow LA is hosting an important tech event - please consider registering and coming by. MORE
Apprentices earn a living salary on their first day, and we as a tech community can support a program that puts more coders in the market with a keen eye toward diversity and opportunity while getting work completed. The post More Coders. If there’s one consistent concern I hear from the companies I work with, it’s the shortage of qualified tech talent. MORE
Yes this includes nearly all of us – Architects, Engineers, Accountants, Lawyers, Graphic Designers, Coders, Developers, Journalists – every single task that can be done remotely, and even some that can’t be. You’ve heard this: If all you ever do, is all you’ve every done. Then you can only expect all you’ve ever got. It’s changed slightly, actually it has changed radically : If all you ever do, is all you’ve ever done. MORE
The demand for medical coders is at its all-time high with the number of coders in the U.S. Becoming a certified medical coder takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Keep reading to learn more about how to become a certified medical coder. What Is A Medical Coder? MORE
——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. For non-coders: Make a quick prototype in PowerPoint, or. For coders: build the User Interface. MORE
Our developers are some of the best coders out there, but they’re also film buffs, foodies, musicians, gamers, and marathon runners. By Josh Golden, CEO of Table XI. 5 things every entrepreneur should know: 1. MORE
This is certainly a good thing for both sides – it gets tiring to hear about yet another company that puts its coders through several months of 80-hour work weeks just to push the project through the deadline successfully. MORE
Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two. —– Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora! MORE
I had the pleasure of spending a few hours last night at the Boston Technovation event at MIT. It was a lot of fun, and a really impressive, nationwide effort. Their mission from their website is as follows: “The mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship. MORE
Development experts at Treehouse explain: “If you completely split the duties of designing and coding, there inevitably comes a point in a project where the coder ends up doing bits of design, at which point the design can start to degrade. MORE
We talk about trying to find the best coder, the best UX guru, the ultimate growth hacker, but we should focus on is having the best culture where amazing collaborations can happen. MORE
Nuances related to layout, graphics, device and browser compatibility, media handling and performance are time consuming to even the most proficient coders. An easy to use website design app eliminates the need for professional designers, coders, and SEO consultants. MORE
Meet an executive who took his childhood passion for coding and turned it into a company that is now saving today’s failing college experience. Brian Rowe began coding at age 13. He took that love for data to a position at Cummins that won him an award from CIO Magazine for “50 Best Intranets.” MORE
He hires for creative ability, people who can be the architects as opposed to the simple coders of routines. Want the best way to create your core competency quickly and inexpensively? MORE
first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. This is the kind of coder you are looking for. MORE
Go the extra mile to find the coder who stays up all night and the graphic designer who spends their free time in museums. Startups seem to be all the rage today. As soon as someone as an idea for an app or a business, the first reaction is to start a “startup”. MORE
Among these is the somewhat uninspiring sameness of the typical tech startup - i.e. younger coders developing “apps" of - dare I say - “marginal” societal value. MORE
In addition to Confluence, Atlassian also offers other software services designed for developers and coders as well as tools for leaders. Are you or your employees operating at peak productivity? According to new research, the answer is likely no. Data reported by Forbes from the U.S. MORE
Half the coders I know were… Continue reading on Austin Startups I’m pretty sure that to be a legit millennial, you’re not supposed to work in the field you got a degree in. MORE
We're not the smartest country on earth--and we're not the country with the most PhDs, coders, scientists, language experts, etc., "In May 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 185,000 aeroplanes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns and 18 million tons of merchant shipping in two years. Adolf Hitler was told by his advisors that this was American propaganda; in 1939, annual aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. MORE
Even if you're a star coder, as your business grows there will come a moment when you're going to need IT help on a full-time basis. An ill-timed technology meltdown can be catastrophic for a vulnerable startup. MORE
Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential. A founding web/mobile team without a coder past the initial stages of Customer Discovery is not a startup. “ By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”. Book of Five Rings. MORE
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 5, 2019
The demand for medical coders is at its all-time high with the number of coders in the U.S. Becoming a certified medical coder takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Keep reading to learn more about how to become a certified medical coder. What Is A Medical Coder?
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 6, 2016
Apprentices earn a living salary on their first day, and we as a tech community can support a program that puts more coders in the market with a keen eye toward diversity and opportunity while getting work completed. The post More Coders. If there’s one consistent concern I hear from the companies I work with, it’s the shortage of qualified tech talent.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Can we afford to wait for the rise of these coders to attend the workforce? Therein lies the need for the citizen coder. Self-taught and digitally native, the citizen coder is a symbol of 21st century success and a ready-made solution to a yawning skills gap.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Meet an executive who took his childhood passion for coding and turned it into a company that is now saving today’s failing college experience. Brian Rowe began coding at age 13. He took that love for data to a position at Cummins that won him an award from CIO Magazine for “50 Best Intranets.”
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 13, 2012
If anything has held true about the progress of technology over the last 150 years, it is that one generation's bread and butter tasks become automated and the skill level requirement for participating successfully in the workforce is forced up. We've seen disruption by machines among all sorts of human labor, particularly in the area of "making stuff". So will that hold true for ones and zeros?
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. My answer used to be something like: our job as an entrepreneurs is to organise the factors of production, not be them. But I’ve recently changed my answer to yes regarding the coding question. And no, I haven’t gone out and learned PHP or Ruby or the latest groovy language. My code is the english language.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
women-coders women-in-tech tech women-in-computer-science gender-diversity-in-techWomen programmers are almost as rare as unicorns. Take a peek into any developer meeting and you’ll most likely find one or two women… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Rob Go
APRIL 26, 2012
I had the pleasure of spending a few hours last night at the Boston Technovation event at MIT. It was a lot of fun, and a really impressive, nationwide effort. Their mission from their website is as follows: “The mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship.
View from Seed
MAY 24, 2017
They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg. Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. Visit andela.com to learn more, or follow Christina at twitter.com/sasschristina. Channel Links: iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play.
Austin Startup
JUNE 13, 2016
Half the coders I know were… Continue reading on Austin Startups I’m pretty sure that to be a legit millennial, you’re not supposed to work in the field you got a degree in.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Assembla, founded in 2005 and acquired by Scaleworks in 2016, is a software as a service company that sells a platform that allows coders […].
The Next Web
MAY 16, 2017
Hiring interdisciplinary coders who could help keep kids really engaged on their self-made computers. Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 31, 2013
Developer mentors and judges from AT&T, i.am.angel, Google, Scopely, CGI, Factual, and ESRI and the City and County of LA will support coders during the weekend. Not a coder? Tomorrow LA is hosting an important tech event - please consider registering and coming by.
VC Cafe
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The purpose of binpress is to save coders time coding by finding existing solutions to time consuming problems. They also have an in-house affiliate program for coders and Internet marketers. - Far from being gimmicky, Binpress can save coders lots of time and money.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential. A founding web/mobile team without a coder past the initial stages of Customer Discovery is not a startup. “ By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”. Book of Five Rings.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. For non-coders: Make a quick prototype in PowerPoint, or. For coders: build the User Interface.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
But this also produces a natural weakness , and when I look at what made me a successful entrepreneur — not just a great coder — it’s that I acknowledged and overcame that weakness.
The Next Web
AUGUST 12, 2016
When I first got started in entrepreneurship, it seemed like everybody in the world was pushing me to become a coder. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt the pain of being a ‘non-technical’ founder working on a technical startup.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 9, 2016
Every startup team needs a “product owner” role who is not an engineer or coder to collect from customers, prioritize and document required features.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
South by Southwest Interactive is inviting coders and designers in the Austin area to participate in a Hackathon at the end of this month. The SXSW hackathon focuses on finding “a correlation between health-related data and patient care.” ” The 24-hour event takes place Sept. 29th and 30th at Conjuctured Coworking at 1309 East 7th Street [.] The post SXSW Hosts a Health Data Hackathon in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology
The Startup Magazine
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There aren’t enough well-qualified Python coders. This gap between the demand and supply is another reason for high pay packages are being offered to Python coders. Programming is at the heart of almost every job, especially in the tech and engineering field.
Up and Running
MAY 21, 2018
Development experts at Treehouse explain: “If you completely split the duties of designing and coding, there inevitably comes a point in a project where the coder ends up doing bits of design, at which point the design can start to degrade.
The Next Web
JUNE 1, 2013
Netherlands-based Puck Meerburg , meanwhile, is a talented coder who took us through his journey leading up to his most recent release, a game called CatStacker. One of the most talked about parts of The Next Web Conference Europe 2013 was when two 13-year-olds took to the stage.
www.peterdrew.net
OCTOBER 23, 2010
first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. This is the kind of coder you are looking for.
Berkonomics
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He hires for creative ability, people who can be the architects as opposed to the simple coders of routines. Want the best way to create your core competency quickly and inexpensively?
Gust
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
This is where you find the superb Rails coder, AND the world-class information architect, AND the consummate sales guy, AND the persuasive biz dev gal, AND the brilliant CFO. That is why it is not uncommon to see big enterprise sales people making high six figure, or even seven figure, salaries or commissions, while a neophyte coder might be in the low five figure range. Engineer Irwin Cantor (the coder)?
YoungUpstarts
JULY 22, 2018
This is certainly a good thing for both sides – it gets tiring to hear about yet another company that puts its coders through several months of 80-hour work weeks just to push the project through the deadline successfully.
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
We talk about trying to find the best coder, the best UX guru, the ultimate growth hacker, but we should focus on is having the best culture where amazing collaborations can happen.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 26, 2017
In addition to Confluence, Atlassian also offers other software services designed for developers and coders as well as tools for leaders. Are you or your employees operating at peak productivity? According to new research, the answer is likely no. Data reported by Forbes from the U.S.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 23, 2015
He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there. This is not a post about a bubble, real or imagined. It’s a lesson from when I was 20 years old. I showed up at MIT as an eager freshman. I was 17, from Dallas, with a nice pair of cowboy boots and long hair. On my first day, at the freshman picnic, I heard that 50% of us would end up in the bottom half of our class.
Brandanew
JULY 28, 2015
A freelance writer, software coder or a photographer can also be considered in this category. Our world is dominated by brands. Brands are everywhere. Whenever we buy something, we usually check what brand it is. Brands tell us about the existing reputation of the product.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 11, 2017
Online websites that promise to teach people how to code, such as Coder Camp, for example, have proved incredibly successful, with nine out of ten graduates finding a position relating to the field within 90 days of completing the 12-week course.
Up and Running
JULY 16, 2010
That post says: Google App Inventor claims to enable non-coders to develop complete, working Android apps by connecting a series of “blocks.” Did you miss the first Internet boom, back in the 1990s, and fail to make your millions then? Did you not write the cute little iPhone app that made the teenager tons of money? Well cheer up. There is still hope. Read Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App on Mashable.
Growthink Blog
JUNE 27, 2018
Among these is the somewhat uninspiring sameness of the typical tech startup - i.e. younger coders developing “apps" of - dare I say - “marginal” societal value.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2013
Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two. —– Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 11, 2012
Even if you're a star coder, as your business grows there will come a moment when you're going to need IT help on a full-time basis. An ill-timed technology meltdown can be catastrophic for a vulnerable startup.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Nuances related to layout, graphics, device and browser compatibility, media handling and performance are time consuming to even the most proficient coders. An easy to use website design app eliminates the need for professional designers, coders, and SEO consultants.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 30, 2014
Without even pausing to document the process internally, no-one can easily take over the job, if for any reason the cowboy coder is no longer in control. You’ve surely heard the variations on this theme. Ready, fire aim” was popular in the 1990’s, accredited to any of several authors.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 25, 2013
Our developers are some of the best coders out there, but they’re also film buffs, foodies, musicians, gamers, and marathon runners. By Josh Golden, CEO of Table XI. 5 things every entrepreneur should know: 1.
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2011
Yes this includes nearly all of us – Architects, Engineers, Accountants, Lawyers, Graphic Designers, Coders, Developers, Journalists – every single task that can be done remotely, and even some that can’t be. You’ve heard this: If all you ever do, is all you’ve every done. Then you can only expect all you’ve ever got. It’s changed slightly, actually it has changed radically : If all you ever do, is all you’ve ever done.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 18, 2017
We're not the smartest country on earth--and we're not the country with the most PhDs, coders, scientists, language experts, etc., "In May 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 185,000 aeroplanes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns and 18 million tons of merchant shipping in two years. Adolf Hitler was told by his advisors that this was American propaganda; in 1939, annual aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Go the extra mile to find the coder who stays up all night and the graphic designer who spends their free time in museums. Startups seem to be all the rage today. As soon as someone as an idea for an app or a business, the first reaction is to start a “startup”.
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