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Web Designers vs. Web Developers

SoCal CTO

Funny graphic by @shanesnow that captures the difference between web designers vs. web developers: Like the issue of Startup CTO or Developer , often startup founders who are less technical have this same question. Do I need a designer or a developer?

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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! As expected, reads are unaffected since the tests are designed to allow the database engine to fit the entire data set into memory.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

Tech.Co

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. That really manifested into us doing events. We’d try to go bigger and show more people VR.

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JS Saturday | Javascript Beginner to Advanced in One Day!

Tech Zulu Event

The day will include an introduction to Javascipt, Jquery, Knockout JS, HTML5/CSS – Responsive web design, Nodejs, Javascript Patterns and many more!! The following are a few of the expert speakers you will learn from: Nathan Totten , a technical evangelist at Microsoft specializing in Windows Azure, web development, and Node.js.

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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