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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. are built on Drupal.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Show you can code in any number of popular web technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc. Why do I say that? In particular, be sure to use the latest Web 2.0+

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Consider, for example, that Facebook recently created their own implementation of PHP that can significantly reduce costs for “Facebook scale” companies, while promising a smoother transition for those of us who choose PHP now. Unfortunately, in the world of software engineering, that’s a very real risk.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

We’re contact@socialmatchbox.com and we will be happy to get you in touch with the right recruiter or user group to talk to for networking purposes. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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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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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment. Choose platform and architecture for prototypes and V1 projects, and provide cost-effective 80/20 solutions.

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