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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. Online Marketing Director, Knewton - New York, NY "I am 15. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day. We have a deep technology stack.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. Also lot’s of fake, wanna be CTOs here. (So This imbalance keeps L.A. What is Drupal?

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Takeaways from our first V1 Data Team Hangout

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago, we had our first virtual hangout with data scientists in our portfolio from San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, and New York. The company provides Python/SQL training sessions and refreshers, with “homework” being related to the business.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. E, How is WoW sharded? Ive noticed queues for instances lately.

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Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design

www.readwriteweb.com

Improvements in New York Times' Fech Makes It Easier to Follow the Money. Silverlight Lives On in New SQL Server 2012 Reporting Tool. Follow these five steps and you might just say "bye, bye" to the waterfall and "hello" to responsive Web design. Waterfall photo courtesy of Shutterstock. The Art of Good Code Design.

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Occam's Razor

This means we can join the two tables with simple sql and understand which online shoppers ended up making a purchase offline (and what keyword they used to arrive on your site): Boom! The two tables above have something in common, a primary key (Geek ID).

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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. Superficially it sort of worked, but the underlying code is so full of fundamental coding errors (God classes, SQL Injection opportunities, massive global dependencies etc.) Recently I was accepted at The Agora gallery in New York.