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More Coders. More Diversity.

Feld Thoughts

To address this, Heather Terenzio, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Techtonic Group, developed Techtonic Academy , an innovative solution in the form of Colorado’s first federally recognized by the Department of Labor technology apprenticeship. After about six months, graduating apprentices are qualified junior developers, ready to work.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. One of your better developers leaves.

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. The approach demystifies the design process by involving the other team members (yes, developers too!) Initially, the biggest challenge was to increase developers’ comfort level with such low-fi assets. in the problem-solving process.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. I’m not saying that a software engineer candidate shouldn’t code at an interview. Well, you get my point. I want to see a blog and/or a Twitter account.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.