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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. About 2% of the participants have SEO and Google Analytics skills, about 3% have stated that they possess digital marketing skills. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Android Web views have the benefit of being able to expose an entire Java class to JavaScript. On the Java side, the WebViewInterface is a standard Java class. Like most things in software development, there must be some caveats to developing with Web views. Invoking Native Android Code From JavaScript.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? And that’s the position you want to be in. 3 Rob on 09.29.09

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. The easier communication and better quality developers will often outway the added cost.