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Re: INTERACTIVE Rank Canada's top 20 'Web 2.0' companies - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:47:11 -0000

Anyone else see OpenText on this list and go, "Huh?". I mean, sure, they have some characteristics of a 2.0 entity, but are they really that kind of company? It's like looking at 19 people dressed as the 'cool guy' from the Mac commercials, and then spotting the Microsoft guy -- only this guy is really tall, rich and successful.

Re: Top 10 programming languages of the future - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:17:57 -0000

Well Rodney we could be drop things like CSS/HTML, (which are markup languages) and Ajax, and PL/SQL and yes, .Net --- or we could be inclusive and reflect the many outgrowths of 'programming'.

Perhaps I shouldn't have called it 'Programming Languages'. If you have a better umbrella term I'll change the title.

Re: Salary Survey Results 2008-2009 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:50:35 -0000

Devs at smaller companies tend to make more on average, while devs at larger companies had the wildest gulfs between huge earners and people earning close to the 'low' end.
The GTA was by far the most polarized of the three regions in terms of high earners/low earners.
QA salaries jump dramatically in the 12+ group. This is in part due to a smaller sample size.
Of the three R&D groups, technical writers were the least likely to share their salary, QA were the most likely.
There is no regional information for tech writers because I forgot to add that question to the survey. Yes. I know. Dumb.

There is MUCH more to come from this. I haven't even touched the QA work|life data yet, or poured the data into an interactive form.

Re: Salary Survey Results 2008-2009 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:58:18 -0000

Full-time employees only. We have some data for contract, but we don't have a large enough sample.

Sorry about the extra zero on the developer. Fixed and thanks Geoffrey.

Re: Red Canary 2008 Compensation Questionnaire - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:18:01 -0000

Thanks Ian, I'll look into that. It ran fine in testing, but you know how that goes...

Re: Salary Survey Results 2008-2009 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:45:50 -0000

That's precisely why we didn't include it, though I did toy with the idea of a 'what title fits you best' dropdown. It would give me another table option.

No need to to delete the first comment. I have no doubt it will be followed by other errors shortly. : )

Re: Salary Survey '08-'09 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:48:33 -0000

Thanks Jon, I'll look into this immediately.

Re: Salary Survey '08-'09 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:50:27 -0000

Firefox 3 on Windows XP?

Re: Comments only showing when URL has a ?success param

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:19:11 -0000

What if you have multiple query strings created by an email service provider? (embedding analytics information). How do you manage that?

Re: Salary Survey Results 2008-2009 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:00:49 -0000

Total respondents for R&D was 2903. That's a little misleading however, in that some respondents didn't give a salary, and some didn't give a location, and some gave a salary and not much else.

Needless to say putting everything together was no picnic.

Re: Developer Compensation: A New Reality? - Red Canary

Red Canary — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:30:14 -0000

We had an issue where the comment system was placing comments according to the landing url, so we had to put them back together. Your comment wasn't deleted but it might have accidentally been removed. I'll look into this.

-- it's still in the system...I'll have them add it back in.

Re: Revenue models and exits for web 2.0 ventures - Red Canary

Red Canary — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:20:05 -0000

They look to be there...M&A, savings and credit-token

Re: Market Research Analyst - Red Canary

Red Canary — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:45:57 -0000

Thanks for posting your resume Shahzad, but it's probably not the best idea to put it here. Penny will contact you directly.

-- Trevor

Re: Developer Compensation: A New Reality? - Red Canary

Red Canary — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:31:00 -0000

Hi Mark. I asked Disqus to add your comment in. Twice. Sorry.

Re: Market Research Analyst - Red Canary

Red Canary — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:54:40 -0000

We're working on a solution to that, but for now the email address above is the best way to go.

Re: Developer Compensation: A New Reality? - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:57:38 -0000

Your post was added back in : )

Re: Switching from iTunes to the new Songbird

Red Canary — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:38:45 -0000

God I hate iTunes as well, I've been watching songbird for at least 2 (maybe even 3) years...talk about glacial development timeline. Are they ever going to get to 1.0?

Thing about songbird is that it's still brutally buggy at least for OS X. Not great with large libraries either. It crashes within 30 minutes and the iPod support is not good.

Glad to know that other people hate how bloated and restrictive iTunes is. : )

Re: UX Architect - Front End - Red Canary

Red Canary — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:49:28 -0000

testing comments

Re: Work|Life Results 2008 QA - Red Canary

Red Canary — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:03:36 -0000

A caveat: the numbers for some of the data don't always add up. It's not because I'm fudging, it's because respondents didn't always answer all of the questions. Company size in particular seems to have befuddled quite a few people, so they skipped it. That caused me quite a bit of extra excel work, btw. So shame on you people. : )

Re: Senior UI Developer - Ajax Guru - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:53:30 -0000

Yeah, isn't that how it works? You build something cool, they make money. Then you take what you've learned and go make your own.

And don't forget this role offers stock options, so you'll cash in on your own hard work. How many millionaires has Microsoft optioned?

Re: Senior UI Developer - Ajax Guru - Red Canary

Red Canary — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:36:40 -0000

If 9 out of 10 startups fail, then this company is willing to pay you to fail, rather than going out on your own and failing with your own cash, sweat and blood.

What's the alternative, work for a big company and give up creative freedom? Freelance and live hand to mouth? How many situations will there be when you get venture-backed money to see how smart you are?

You're right about options, they are worthless 9 times out of 10, but I'd still rather fail spectacularly and come out with paper options, experience and some cash (you DO get paid you know) than play it safe for a few thousand extra dollars a year.

Re: Salary Survey Results 2008-2009 - Red Canary

Red Canary — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:09:05 -0000

Yes and no. Plenty of traffic, excellent cost-per-click ratio, but conversions are difficult with this age group. Our experience is pretty much consistent with other Facebook advertisers that I've talked to. Email me if you'd like me to elaborate!

Re: Top 10 programming languages of the future - Red Canary

Red Canary — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:43:20 -0000

I'll add them, I was planning on a refresh/rebuild.

Re: One Red Question: What advice would you give to a young graduate starting a tech career? - Red Canary

Red Canary — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:24:49 -0000

Excellent advice. Where should they look?

Re: clustershot.com – a fair market for stock photography

Red Canary — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:24:37 -0000

Love the Canadian content, but I use three or four stock photo sites and Cluster seems overpriced. Not overpriced compared to Getty or its ilk, of course, but there are plenty of low-end competitors in the <$10 shot range.

Great idea for a startup however, as you have a built-in exit strategy. Any kind of success almost guarantees you'll get purchased by one of the big stock houses.