No one looks forward to recessions. They are times when people become very cautious with their finances and fear for the future. In spite of all of this, its also a time of great opportunity. Many successful companies started during a recession or in a weak economy. The Tabulating Machine Company In 1896, William Jennies [...]

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Programming If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning and the response would be, “We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more”. (Mark Minasi) Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot [...]

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Writing software is difficult work and the efforts are typically not appreciated by those who have never written a line of source code. The survey from PayScale below shows the salaries from employed software developers. It is based on people with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and working in the US. These numbers are [...]

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Talent in the web is found on the web, not at networking events. ScottDig This quote sums up Scott’s article, How To Find Web Designers and Programmers For Your Startup, very well. He has a good understanding of the mind set of a software developer. I would rather be coding than attending networking events. Virtual [...]

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On November 13th, the download counter at WordPress showed its 3 millionth download. That is an incredible achievement and I have to ask myself, how does an application gain so much popularity? What does WordPress have that other blogs, many of them which are better and more advanced, do not have? I think the one [...]

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