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Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! After a year of writing for Skillcrush, one of the biggest misconceptions I’ve seen in our comments sections, emails to the editor, or even questions…
Get Your FREE Guide to Going Freelance All the resources you need to transition into full-time freelance! This post originally appeared on Ellevate Network. As a kid, I always thought that if I apologized for an action, even one that wasn’t my fault, it would somehow diffuse the situation and make everyone happier. It became…
One of the trickiest fields to create is the date/time select. Developers often resort to simple select menus for the month/day/year or rely on various plugins to do the job. Select fields work fine but they’re a little clunky. Instead, you can jazz up your form with the Flatpickr plugin. It’s a free, open-source JavaScript…
Get Your FREE Guide to Going Freelance All the resources you need to transition into full-time freelance! With all the resources out there on how to better yourself as a freelancer, you might find yourself in sensory overload wondering who has time to do all this reading that is supposedly crucial to your success. As…
Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! We’re back with episode two of our podcast Hit Refresh. You can listen on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Overcast, our site, or wherever you get your…
Get the Beginner’s Guide to What to Put in Your Tech Portfolio Get dozens of resources, plus expert tips on how to build a KILLER portfolio even if you’re an absolute beginner. As a digital designer, a well-organized portfolio showing off your design skills, range, and interests will be a backbone in your search for…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. I spent the twelve years since my oldest daughter was born as a stay-at-home dad and homemaker, and—during that time—periods like winter break when the kids are…
Get Your FREE Guide to Going Freelance All the resources you need to transition into full-time freelance! Recently, I was talking to a talented entry level professional, who, six months into her first job, was contemplating quitting and moving on to her next gig. She was plateauing, she said, and didn’t find her role was…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. I’m a back-end developer and new member of the Skillcrush Dev team, working from Miami and—depending on the time of year—the Caribbean! A self-labeled workaholic, I like…
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Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! Here at Skillcrush, a core component of our mission statement is the belief that tech is for everyone (we can’t stop talking about it), and…
You want to know whether or not your customers are loyal to your brand, right? Loyal customers are happy customers who will keep using your product and share it with their friends. That’s what every business wants! But unless you have a full-time team dedicated to interviewing your customers, it can be hard to figure…
If you browse through career opportunities in 2018, you may see a surprising new job title in website design. “Design developer,” a title coined by Andree Huk of blended.io, describes a new kind of front-end developer. Huk explains that a new job position may be necessary to make the transition from traditional visual designers to…
Get Our FREE Guide to Landing a Remote Job You Love Say goodbye to the 9-to-5. Learn the steps you can take TODAY to get a remote job. 20+ Remote Tech Jobs for July 2019 Looking for remote work in the tech field? We’ve got you covered! Take a scroll through these 20 remote tech…
It was Halloween weekend in Manchester, which meant some frightening looking characters wandering the street. Thankfully, the attendees at WordCamp Manchester were far friendlier, with some great talks and fantastic venue provided by MMU. WCMCR followed a slightly different format to the typical WordCamp – instead of a weekend of talks, and the contributor day…
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database system and MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) is the world’s fastest growing open source database system. After installing MySQL server, it is insecure in it’s default configuration, and securing it is one of the essential tasks in general database management. This will contribute to hardening and…
(This branded content is brought to you by Skillshare) Web design is a fast-changing industry, therefore continuous learning is one of the most important skills you need in order to stay relevant in the market. However, acquiring the necessary skills can be a serious challenge, especially with limited free time. Luckily nowadays, there are a…
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Get Our Free Ultimate Guide to Coding for Beginners Make a plan for learning the tech skills you need to land a new job with this 60+ page FREE ebook! Three hundred and sixty four days of the year, we at Skillcrush are in the business of helping people fight their tech fears, learn the…
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