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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R. I learned that software engineers?—?or When I joined my team, I was told the most important metric of success for the supplier-side mobile experience was monthly active users (MAUs). E.g. , Mobile? often referred to as business analytics?—?is Phone calls?

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand.