We’re seeing more demand for Ruby developers here at Stafflink. If you’re looking to hire Ruby programmers, or you’re considering Ruby on Rails as a web development platform, here’s the lowdown. Ruby on Rails is Hot Popular Web apps built with Rails: Basecamp, Twitter, Hulu, Groupon, Git-Hub, Shopify, Yellow Pages, Guitar Hero Ruby is the 2nd top language listed on Github right after Javascript Rails the…
Self-employed independent contractors choose entrepreneurship because they love the freedom and often the money is better than you can get for full time work. But is the $1000 or more that it will cost to become an incorporated technical contractor worth it? The freedom brings risk because you need to line up a new contract when the current one ends. But if…
What do the New York Times, TechCrunch and Yahoo have in common? They use WordPress – a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) that anyone can use to publish a website. WordPress started out as a blogging platform in 2003 and now it’s the top content management system in the world.
Nearly every business is involved with some kind of online marketing. The opportunities for building an online community around your brand are endless: Facebook pages, blogging, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+ company pages are just a few. Where do you find people to help navigate the brave new world of social media marketing and carve out a niche for your brand….
Whatever you do professionally, it’s always nice to be recognized as a person who knows what they’re doing. It feels great when people seek you out to join their teams, or for advice on solving their problems, or to work for their company. It’s fun to get calls from headhunters with an offer you can’t refuse. How Do You Establish Yourself As That Go-To Person…
Q: What profession employs over 50 thousand people across Canada, enables people to earn over 100 thousand dollars in their first year out of school, yet has no university degree or college diploma program? A: IT recruiting.
In a nutshell, PHP is a popular scripting and programming language. PHP is used to build dynamic web pages on the fly by pulling information from a database. PHP is arguably the most popular scripting language that is used to build dynamic websites, web applications and web services.
Need a new logo or a design for your website or business cards? Here’s a solution that’s surprisingly cost effective. Try to crowdsource your next creative design project on 99designs.com. Designers from all over the world will compete to bring you the best design for a price that you set.
If you’re hiring a web developer, or if you’re looking into a career as a web developer, then CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is one of the basic tools you need to know about. Next to HTML, CSS is one of the most basic and important tools in a web developers toolbox.
I first came across Ladies Learning Code on Twitter when they posted an update about their first workshop back in July. This Friday, they were featured in a Toronto Star article highlighting how #ladieslearningcode seeks to close the tech gender gap, providing computer programming for beginners. A project that started with a tweet just a few short months ago (July 16th to…
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