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to develop + -er

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  • Searches with the term developer and every imaginable iteration of it are much more likely to return results on MSDN than searches with the term program or code.

    Site Home gclass 2011

  • For too long, the term developer has been overloaded in the Web agency world.

    JeffCroft.com: Latest blog entries 2009

  • But if the developer is also up to no good then yeah, it just makes the whole point moot.

    How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • The way that I read the article (and know from talking -- the developer is the dad of one of my kid's classmates at school), is that the rainwater reclaimation is only going to be used for landscape and exterior watering -- no toliet flushing, or anything internal, which will come off the mains.

    ccfinlay: A few blocks away from where I work, a d ccfinlay 2007

  • Leasing valuable land to a developer is a commonplace business transaction for commercial development.

    Sound Politics: When Elected Officials Make Fools of Themselves 2006

  • If the developer is also building homes in the development, he may be thinking that if he sells you an extra lot, you may use it as yard, and he would then not make a profit by building a house on the second lot.

    buying lot for house 2005

  • If the developer is also building homes in the development, he may be thinking that if he sells you an extra lot, you may use it as yard, and he would then not make a profit by building a house on the second lot.

    buying lot for house 2005

  • If the developer is also building homes in the development, he may be thinking that if he sells you an extra lot, you may use it as yard, and he would then not make a profit by building a house on the second lot.

    buying lot for house 2005

  • If the developer is also building homes in the development, he may be thinking that if he sells you an extra lot, you may use it as yard, and he would then not make a profit by building a house on the second lot.

    buying lot for house 2005

  • If the developer is also building homes in the development, he may be thinking that if he sells you an extra lot, you may use it as yard, and he would then not make a profit by building a house on the second lot.

    buying lot for house 2005

  • “Ghost developers” are 0.1x1 devs who barely do any work, and may have multiple jobs.

    How to be a Ghostbuster Sean Killeen 2025

  • In 2011, Jeremiah Lee coined the term “developer experience” (DX) to describe the experience for developers of building on top of a platform.

    Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters Mathias Biilmann 2025

  • In 2011, Jeremiah Lee coined the term “developer experience” (DX) to describe the experience for developers of building on top of a platform.

    Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters Mathias Biilmann 2025

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  • Someone who develops Websites on the World Wide Web.

    April 27, 2009

  • That is a very strange interpretation of this definition. Typically in computers, developer refers to someone who develops computer software, which could include web sites, but is almost always referred to as a "web developer". When Steve Ballmer shouted "Developers Developers Developers", he wasn't referred to web designers.

    April 28, 2009