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Stack Overflow's Crash Course to Hiring Developers--Free event

Posted by allennoren on Thursday June 05, 2014 @04:51PM
from the oreilly.com dept.

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3095

Stack Overflow is presenting results from their annual survey during this free webcast on 18 Just hosted by O'Reilly. Here's the description of the event:Building a product is hard enough, but building out your developer team can be even more challenging. As the most in-demand job nationwide, four open jobs exist for every one developer out there. To hire best-in-class developers, you need to...

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Two free ebooks to read during the shutdown

Posted by allennoren on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @10:31AM
from the oreilly.com dept.

http://oreilly.com/data/government-shutdown.html

The government may be shut down, but you don't have to be. Take this time to envision the government you really want: open, transparent, and responsive.

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Carl Malamud's emails w/ Aaron Swartz

Posted by allennoren on Monday January 14, 2013 @05:39PM
from the public.resource.org dept.

https://public.resource.org/aaron/pub/

All of Carl's emails w/ Aaron are available on public.resource.org. It's a trove.

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Try R — A new online course, for free

Posted by allennoren on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:30PM
from the oreilly.com dept.

http://oreilly.com/go/tryr/

Sponsored by O'Reilly, build by CodeSchool (creators of Rails for Zombies), this is a free online course.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly in a Nutshell on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @09:02AM (#2489294)

Regarding reviews on oreilly.com, I can assure you that isn't true. While all product review systems are open to manipulation (Amazon has been dealing with this from the beginning.) we're careful to verify reviewers. All reviews, good or bad, are welcome, and you'll find plenty that are painful for us and our authors, such as this one: http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010067/

Re:Tim O'Reilly in a Nutshell on Monday April 25, 2011 @09:25AM (#2481164)

Hello. There are O'Reilly people listening here. Can you be specific about titles and the problems with them? The Art of SEO and couchDB are two mentioned. What else?

Thanks.