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britman
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Comment #10177052
Issue 1 is here - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/microservices/archive/5936
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Comment #8256800
Quill (London, UK) - passionate, delivery focused software engineers required (Ruby experience preferred but not essential)!!! Quill has developed a tried and tested, market-leadin…
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Comment #8172024
I think the point being made is that ship cycles are very different between B2C and B2B. I've experienced both (and to be clear I love the idea of frequent small releases) but in a…
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Comment #5279109
For me I think it's actually a clever marketing move by DHH and 37 Signals to create a "stir" around the issue. My guess is they don't really care what Yahoo's reasons are behind i…
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Comment #3656563
LONDON, UK - based in kennington close to the Oval cricket ground. My team are building out our next generation Cloud based sports pricing platform (more: http://www.sportingsoluti…
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Comment #3538108
Sporting Solutions (Part of sporting index group) - based in London (near Waterloo), UK - FULL TIME We are currently in the process of building out our next generation Cloud based …
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Comment #2718389
this is an interesting stat as I still don't understand how you can get around the "visa" issue of working in the US with a UK passport.
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Comment #2624973
It actually explains the new office in the post "Erich will continue to live and work out of Zurich, Switzerland where we will be opening a small Visual Studio development lab with…
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Comment #2624963
Just to add a combination of jquerymobile and phonegap has allowed us to deliver native iphone, ipad, android and mobile web app from the same codebase. Pretty sweet.
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Comment #2197941
Such a common issue, we have recruiters phone us directly and lie to whoever answers the phones by saying they have a UPS package for "John" in an attempt to talk to us. Scum bags
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Comment #1965624
not true if you're developing the desktop app in Silverlight which will run in all of those desktop environments (of course Moonlight is not an official release from MSFT)
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Comment #1872830
Complete agree with "If a recruiter insists in having references is a contacts-harvesting cowboy. Treat him like you would treat a zombie. I only give references after the initial …
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Comment #1855885
Based in Guildford, Surrey, UK (no remote at the moment) sharpcloud is looking for a talented Silverlight developer with a passion for creating great software for users, in a fast-…
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Comment #1846992
I take a pragmatic approach to Unit tests so find some use but don't feel the 100% gold standard of coverage is realistic or even sensible to aspire too but in response to Q3) neve…
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Comment #1510725
Everyone is pretty quick to criticise Ballmer and Microsoft and while he does spout a lot of nonsense has anybody actually evaluated Microsoft's cloud platform....from the comments…
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Comment #1419535
So I'd be interesting to hear if anyone is running this in a prod env? I'm currently evaluating NoSQL at the moment (mongo, cassandra, raven etc etc) so would be interested to hear…
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Comment #1103902
We're looking for .Net devs (Silverlight experience a bonus). We're based in Guildford in the UK. You can find out more about what we're going from a video we've just done for chan…
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Comment #866386
So Kindle for the UK and free 3G access....wow very tempting
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Comment #861520
Yeah I'm liking the look of 99 Designs, especially as you say the fact you get a broad range of initial designs which gives you a nice perspective on the directions possible.