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Wiki-based Tools for Software Engineering

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, February 11, 2011 -- Wiki-based Tools for Software Engineering. For the past several years, USC's Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has been using tools hosted on the MediaWiki engine, or Wiki-based tools, to support its activities.

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. Mangers said Webvisible today has slightly under 300 employees, and hopes to have slightly under 500 employees by the end of the year.

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Bridging The Gap Between Students And Startups, With TechLA

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Particularly when you consider the activity around Silicon Valley, you see the activity in Silicon Valley revolves around Stanford and Sand Hill Road, which is just geographically very close. Students are looking actively for internships now, and to get the best students, you want to post internships now. Thanks, and good luck!

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

socalTECH

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. We've built an artficial intelligence platform, which tells you who is more active than others, based on their behavior. That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in.

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Galvanize Plans Expansion To Los Angeles

socalTECH

Galvanize , a company which operates a network of locations teaching software engineering skills--and which often serve as hubs of startup activity nationwide, offering up coworking for technology startups, events, and more--is planning to expand its efforts in Los Angeles, after raising $32M and buying another "coding bootcamp" operator, Hack Reactor. (..)

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Entrepreneurs Should Forget ROI And Focus On Return On Life – The New Measure Of Wealth

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How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". We both lived in the city (San Francisco), she was in event marketing and I was a software engineer. And we want to take a packed lunch there.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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In Seattle people like Dave Schappell actively recruit people like me to visit the city and when we do he becomes a “brand ambassador” for the city organizing great meetings, events & dinners. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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