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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

Learn Code the Hard Way : On Learn Code The Hard Way, you’ll find books and courses to learn Python, Ruby, C, SQL, and Regex. Onvard : Onvard offers a self-guided resource for learning different tracks, including Ruby on Rails, HTML, and PHP. to learn the basics of programming Ruby, with no previous programming experience needed.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

Open-ended questions embedded on your website or in an email are two ways to collect qualitative data that reveals your audience’s pain points. Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. Are they a potential sponsor?

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I don’t care if this person is going to spend 60 hours a week writing inscrutable code that only a Ruby interpreter could love. There’s enough crap you’re having to figure out without also having to decipher an email. Instead, prepare an email template that asks the applicant to write a few paragraphs on a few topics.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

——— 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. Use Mailchimp , Postmark or Google Groups to send out emails and create groups.

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Verified Data Will Prevent “Fake It Til You Make It”

Hunter Walker

We pick topical, relevant bits from Facebook, Twitter or emailed news alerts, and then regurgitate them. A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. “It’s never been so easy to pretend to know so much without actually knowing anything.

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Courting Content, Not Controversy

Startup Lessons Learned

A woman was sexually assaulted by her boss during the drinking scene at a Ruby conference. The code of conduct includes phone and email for our executive producer, who will contact the two of us immediately if she receives a report. Rape jokes were directed at a woman on stage at a Microsoft’s E3 press conference.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

She wants to send email, not learn a new UI; but worse, she doesn’t really know that learning a new UI is what she is expected to do. This situation has become sufficiently common that some language projects (Ruby on Rails and Python come to mind) have abandoned upward compatibility.