…highly fluid, client-oriented technology company. The successful candidate is interested in Agile Development, XP, and Lean business principles.
Key Responsibilities
Creating well-structured website related code utilizing industry best practices within a collaborative team environment
Architecting, planning, estimating and scheduling software development releases and website architecture
Determining hardware and software requirements for both web and mobile products
Authoring …
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…organization," explains Rick MacConnell , Senior Director of Development at Manheim. "Our online presence serves as an additional buying channel for automotive industry professionals, giving them valuable research tools to determine the current wholesale market value for any given vehicle. If one of our sites is not performing well, we can affect our ability to operate at maximum capacity and properly service our customers."
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Let's Mod with Pahimar! Episode 3 Part 2: Helpful Tools and Setting Up Your Development Environment
In today's episode I show you how to set up your development environment in the same way that I myself do it, using a lot of the tools we talked about in Episode 3 part 1.
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