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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger. Plus, since spammers rely heavily on popular keywords, names generated solely with SEO in mind can seem spammy. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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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. Ruby on Rails. Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages. Tossing Out Pages And Content Blocks. Navigation. Performance. Photography.

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

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My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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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. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups.