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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

percent year-on-year to US$118,900, according to an infographic from Silicon Valley technical recruiting firm, Riviera Partners. Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent Check out the infographic for more:

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

. ——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.). and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

— As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”. But it’s easy to get drowned out by the noise from Silicon Valley and other cities in Washington and Oregon. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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Twitter Link Roundup #153 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder | Inc – [link]. Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder | Inc – [link]. Interesting graphic comparing PHP, Ruby and Python – [link]. Getting Better vs Being Good – [link]. TechCrunch – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #227 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

This map reveals exactly where Silicon Valley gets its talent | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/1kLpblq. PHP vs Ruby vs Python: Three Programming Languages in a Nutshell | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1nJ16yT. Content Marketing Will Fail Your Business If You Keep Doing This – bit.ly/1kX3Rui. 1l8D3pz.

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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. The strongest impact on improving this situation is Silicon Valley and Seattle companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others are making enormous investments in building So Cal as a software town. This imbalance keeps L.A.