Video recording of the UCLA/R user group meeting of Jan 20, 2010: http://www.meetup.com/LAarea-R-usergroup/calendar/12224944/.
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Please be honest with me. I have very little IT background and I am in the hotel industry( night auditor).

Is web development an option for me at my age or should I go head & prepare myself for a microsoft certification to brecome a Windows Administrator?

Honestly? OK. At 49 years old, what the hell are you doing asking for career advice on Yahoo? Talk to a professional career counselor. Your family is depending on you to make a better effort than this.

Hi guys I just finished doing a web development diploma and I wish to study further at university, so which IT degrees/majors should I consider choosing to do web development?

I don’t think there are University degree programs which corresponds to Web development here in India.

There are Certain Univ in India which offer Diploma in Multimedia etc; but they will not any connection with Web development.

You can try Multimedia Institutes like Arena, Image etc; they will offer some Multimedia programs in connection with Web development.

I will suggest you one thing – better do BCA or B.Sc in Computer Science. A professional degree in Computer Science Education with web development Certificate is enough to get in to this field.

Part 2 of our series on creating fast loading validating SEO power sites. Brought to you by Adam @ http://www.developphp.com

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I am a 48 PC Technician and would like to switch into the Linux or Windows Administration field. But I was wondering if the web development would be also a good alternative? If yes some recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Web development is definitely easier, however, this means that there is plenty of competition.

If you can train yourself to become a solid Linux admin, you will have less trouble finding jobs that pay well in the long run.

My company has made a REAL recruitment video to bring in new talent. We’re hiring web developer/designers currently (Jan. ‘07) Please contact us via email – jobs@goinginteractive.com if you have what we need!

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I have an internet business. My web development happens in India. Is outsourcing web development on a monthly basis to India ( a few employees there) subject to backup withholding ? This is an expense for the USA business and am wondering is there is any kind of taxes due on this outsourcing bill
Please indicate source/referring page and also if it is exempt in CA. My CPS says I am subject to backup withholding on my outsourcing payments but I see no reference of it on the web. Please provide reference, if possible

Your CPA doesn’t know international tax law.

1. Earned Income is sourced by WHERE the work is done.
2. If the work is being done in India by someone who is a citizen of India, it’s not US-source income and not subject to US tax rules.
3. If the work is being done in the US or in India by a US person (US citizen or resident alient), THEN it’s subject to the rules.

You need to have the contractors in India (all of them) sign a modified version of the W-8BEN form (the problem is you need language that says this is NOT US-source income and they are NOT US residents for tax purposes and the IRS does NOT have a form for you to use to show due diligence).

For "proof" get the IRS publication 515 and realize that your situation is NOT COVERED. And since it’s NOT COVERED, it’s NOT subject to US withholding.

Now, since these are employees, the income *may* be subject to INDIAN tax law and INDIAN withholding.

See pub 515, page 22 and read the part about Pay for Personal Services VERY carefully. Yes it says 30% for backup withholding, but it also says "performed in the United States."

I was just wondering where i should transfer to in the future. I want a school that is hard-core focused on web design and development.

With schooling, please forgo those private $$ career/tech/institutes as they’re usually overpriced and course credits may Not transfer to other schools.

Please also steer clear of those online, for-profit schools (may have ‘bricks and mortar’ buildings and may be ‘accredited’) such as penn foster, capella, ITT tech, strayer, everest, kaplan, ashworth, high tech, argosy, walden, university of phoenix, devry, stratford career, excelsior, remington and others as they are merely out to ‘make a profit’ (and course credits may not transfer to others schools either): http://www.ripoffreport.com and can type into search.

For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ

This website may have some posts by former college students about their experience at school: http://www.studentsreview.com and can type into search and click ‘comments’ if there are any.

For general career information: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search ‘computer software engineers and computer programmers’ or such.

The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007

Simon Stewart – Web Driver
Faster than a speeding bullet! Easier to maintain than something that’s really easy to maintain! Reliable! That’s what we want from our tests, but how do we get there? This presentation covers key strategies and patterns for writing test suites using WebDriver, a developer focused tool for web application testing similar in spirit to Selenium RC. We’ll cover why it was written, the problems it addresses and how to integrate it into your projects and testing process.

Simon Stewart lives in London and works as a developer for ThoughtWorks, specialising in Agile development and Test Driven Development. His Open Source contributions include the original integration of WebWork and Spring as well as WebDriver. He enjoys writing better software and beer, sometimes at the same time.

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I know Computer Science is an option, but what’s the point of learning things like C++ or system-based Java if I won’t be using it?

Also, I could major in specially Web Design and Development.

Thoughts?

You over-estimate what your degree is going to teach you. A degree says one thing to most people – you can learn. My professor told me that, and I think he’s right – for a lot of jobs at least. Most of what you learn in computer science is so generalized, that most grad jobs are going to teach you what you need to know.

Besides, in university you’re learning methodologies rather than specific languages. In my 4 years of university, I dabbled in around 15 different computer languages – none that I was really good at. But the methodologies and algorithms are quite transferable.