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How Do You Talk To a Developer?

By ⋅ July 27, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

As often as people complain that they can’t find a developer for their startup, they complain just as much that they cannot talk to a developer once they have found one. It has come up time and again in panels that programmers speak a foreign language to them and that they have trouble getting through and letting the hackers know what needs to be coded. Why is this a repetitive problem and how can it be fixed?

Why Don’t Developers Network?

By ⋅ June 4, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

There are a lot of developers out there and a lot of startups looking for developers. Often developers will get contacted directly but not be available, but they will have a very limited circle to pass the work on to. This begs the question: Why don’t developers network?

The Way Mashable Hires Developers Is An Insult

By ⋅ May 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Friday evening, a link was posted to Twitter and passed around stating that Mashable was looking for developers. Clicking on the link brought the viewer to a fairly empty page that contained only a form and the words “Apply to be a Developer at Mashable” at the top. I found this way to seek out a developer insulting to someone who spent years studying and honing their craft to be a developer.

Why Hackers Don’t Want To Join Your Startup

By ⋅ May 13, 2010 ⋅ One comment

There have been multiple articles recently about the dearth of tech co-founders in New York City startups. The are plenty of developers in New York, so why does there seem to be so many startups that cannot find programmers to help launch their visions?

What Chirp and Twitter Mean For Developers

By ⋅ April 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

This week, Twitter made several announcements and held their first developer’s conference called Chirp. Some of these announcements mean big things for the users while others hold greater significance for developers.While we are seeing the immediate grumblings from developers we don’t know what far reaching effects it will have yet.

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