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2019 Software Development Salary in Jamaica (Survey)
You are invited to share your perspective in the wide world of coding in Jamaica. Help us gain insight into the work environments, tools, and compensation of practitioners in our diverse field. All responses are reported in aggregate to assure your anonymity.
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Take part in the Python Developers Survey 2019.
Join and contribute to the community knowledge!
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SmarthubJa
Use your voice to control every single appliance/equipment in your home. From your refrigerator, microwave, lights, air conditioners, door locking system and camera's or just using one voice command to shut down your entire house.
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Top 10 Caribbean Countries by GDP
Data visualization for the top ten Caribbean Countries with the highest GDP from 1960 to 2018.
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The Future of Work Conference. Outsourcing 4.0: Global Digital Services
Learn all about job and business opportunities in the evolving outsourcing industry, as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Get funded as a open source contributor
Now developers who contribute to open source — whether through code, documentation, leadership, mentorship, design or beyond can join the waitlist on GitHub Sponsorship platform
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Docker just keeps on getting better
Have you heard the big news? Docker ranked #1 most wanted platform, #2 most loved platform, and #3 most broadly used platform in the StackOverflow 2019 Developer survey from nearly 90,000 developers.
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Daytime Live: demonstrating motion capturing during KingstOOn Animation interview
Watch Roshane and Lushane Jones explain what KingstOOn and Motion Capturing is and how it will impact Jamaica. KingstOOn is the Caribbean’s Premiere International Animation Conference and Film Festival being presented by Jamaica’s Office Of The Prime Minister, in partnership with the World Bank. The festival has three major objectives of LEARN to EARN and DISPLAY animation.
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Demystifying the Design Sprints and Customer Experience in 90 seconds
The big idea with the sprint is to build and test a prototype in just five days. It's kind of like fast-forwarding into the future so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of building a real product. Watch for a quick preview of the sprint process.
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Conversation with Jake Knapp - Design Sprints and Customer Experience
At Incrementic, we “Reduce risk and save time by rapidly testing the viability of new opportunities”. Our methodology is the Design Sprint, which offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that work whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hours and countless dollars.
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StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019 - Nearly 90,000 took this comprehensive, annual survey of people who code. Demographics. Most loved, dreaded and wanted technologies. Salary and careers.
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Programming languages: Developers reveal most loved, most loathed, what pays best
Developer knowledge-sharing site Stack Overflow has released its 2019 annual developer survey, revealing the most popular programming languages and which languages are linked to the highest salaries worldwide and in the US.
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The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks
Every developer should read this irrespective of their language used; as our software becomes increasingly complex and connected, the difficulty of achieving application security increases exponentially.
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Which Country Has The Best Programming Language Programmer?
Programming Language is at the heart of every technological innovation. Therefore, a country with the best computer programmers can be considered technologically advanced in today's world.
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MakeBetter - Software Craftsmanship Symposium Series
MakeBetter. is a symposium series for software practitioners who make software and strive to make better software. The event typically consists of three 15 minute presentations and three 5 minute lightning talk presentations. Topics covered include DevOps, Software Development Lifecycles, Javascript Frameworks, Testing, QA, Innovation, User Research, User Experience and Design Methodologies.
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Jamaica College Robotics Team Wins Prestigious Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge in New York
Jamaica College Robotics Team Wins Prestigious Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge in New York - Jamaicans.com - The 13-member Jamaica College Robotics Team put on their best Usain Bolt impression after winning the prestigious and coveted Inspire Award, the highest award, at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Relic Recovery Challenge in New York City. The Inspire Award is the top award given to teams at the FTC Championship. It is given to …
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Serverless For Devops Teams
Serverless as a technology is no longer in its infancy. It has matured to a point where we can at least say it is in its lanky teenage…
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Serverless Twitter Bot - Microservices Demo to get Videos from Twitter
In this video, Marc Byfield from IThance demonstrates a quick Twitter bot MVP that uses serverless technology to get Videos from Twitter and save it to AWS S3 servers.
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Performance Test Survey
This survey hopes to gain useful statistics on the current standards and trends in performance testing.
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Why You Should Take A Digital-First Approach To Branding
Brands now live and breathe in the digital age, adapting to a world that changes faster than celebrities' political agendas.
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Docker cheatsheet
Docker Commands, Help & Tips
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A not so short story about Docker, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP and the purpose of the Jamaican Developers Community.
A not so short story about Docker, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP and the purpose of the Jamaican… - Eight years ago, I began my journey as a Full Stack Developer with DevOps skills. In that said year, I attended the University of the West…
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Particular Presence Technologies Limited
Particular Presence Technologies is focused on pragmatic approaches to problem-solving using technology. This simply means our focus is on the successful result that brings joy and satisfaction to our clients.
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pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug statements. By pointing these issues out before code review, this allows a code reviewer to focus on the architecture of a change while not wasting time with trivial style nitpicks.
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Particular Software Development Bootcamp
Four (4) instense days of hands-on-training from March 26 to 29 @ the EXIM Bank on 85 Hope Road, Kingston. Come and gain a working understanding of how to successfully do software development in 2019.
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Want to add managers and other users to your YouTube channel? Well, There is a couple things you should know.
First, you cannot add a manager or other users to your YouTube channel without having a branded account. Branded account? Yes, there are actually two types of account, i.e. personal and branded. In these videos, you will see how to change your personal account to a branded account and add managers and other users to your branded account
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What Are Service Workers and How They Help Improve Performance
What Are Service Workers and How They Help Improve Performance - KeyCDN - Service workers run in the background of a user's browser and help improve the user experience with things like offline support, push notifications, etc.
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When is the best time to send newsletters and emails?
Best Time to Send Email Backed By 14 Data-Driven Studies - Unsure what the best time to send email marketing newsletters might be? Dig into findings from 14 studies and improve your email open rates right now.
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Vertis Technology Solutions Limited
Vertis Technology Solutions Limited is a customer centred company. Our aim is to enable our clients' best opportunities with innovative solutions and services while providing great customer service. We offer a wide range of solutions and services. Our team do remarkable things to enable businesses, government and communities to achieve their best and address their toughest challenges.
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