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Unusual Perk For SoCal Technology Firm: Unlimited, Paid Vacation

socalTECH

The firm--which looks to be recruiting Java Developers, project managers, and UX/UI designers in its LA location--apparently lets employees take off as much time as they feel like they need, as one of the perks for working for the company. The firm's policy recently came to light in a WSJ article.

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Java Subversion

SoCal Tech Calendar

Monday, January 26, 2009 -- Pasadena Java User's Group. Topic: subversion. See [link] (more).

Java 100
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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

It's way easier to get your pages setup in these languages than by choosing Java alone. Of course, I'm not sure that anyone chooses Java alone. " With Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails and many other language/framework choices, some aspects of development are significantly faster. They start with lots of other things.

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Get to Know MongoDB and What's New in 2.2

SoCal Tech Calendar

Antoine Girbal has been with 10gen for almost 2 years and works on the core c++ code and java driver. Based on your responses and bio?s, s, we will be having a speaker directly from 10gen!! Antoine will introduce us to MongoDB as well as some of the new features of the 2.2 See [link] (more)

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) As an example, I did that as a search on SoCal Tech Central and Software Development Companies really didn't come up with much. or focused on industry or type of company. But not really CTO events.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

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Build Native Mobile Apps Using Your Web Skills

SoCal Tech Calendar

Appcelerators Titanium platform translates your hard won web skills into native mobile applications that perform and look just like they were written in Objective-C [iPhone] or Java [Android]  but using your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills.

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