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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. Big boy applications.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Make sure you have the right developer(s) on board in whatever capacity you need them, whether it’s a part time HTML or Wordpress developer or a full time PHP wiz. Software EngineerPHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Its Not Just Facebook: MySpace Trans. 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube View More » Business Facebook to Raise Series E Funding wi. 7 Handy iPhone Apps for Managing Empl. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

local sales, disasters, city or regional politics, concerts). When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Or maybe this article sets the ground for the sales pitch of such system.

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

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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