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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. I started seriously job searching around September 2016 and blogged about my experience and takeaways during that time.

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Twitter Link Roundup #237 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

“the presence of ads on a search results page caused the organic CTR of the first position to drop by 30%” – crowdspring.co/1nO4clS. Fan Geoff Case Designs New Dallas Mavs Alternate Team Jersey – crowdspring.co/1pv5Mnw. ” – crowdspring.co/1nMQVKg.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

If you are currently looking for a CTO or technical co-founder, I’ve included some resources below that may help you in your search. A quick search of linkedin will help you locate a fractional CTO in your area. We facilitate Design Sprints in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

at 5:27 pm I’m hosted over at [link] — out of their Dallas DC. . #3 Rob on 12.08.08 at 10:54 am @Matt – Thanks for the recommendation. If I wind up leaving DH WebFaction will be at the top of my list. #4 4 Karl Katzke on 12.08.08 I haven’t had any downtime that I was aware of in the past year.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

at 12:41 pm Rob, just a hypothetical question here: what if there were the equivalent to the iPhone app store for server software? Developers for apps on the iPhone are spared much of the friction you mentioned (marketing challenges, securing wide distribution, fulfillment headaches, varied platform and runtime support issues). #14

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious.

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