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The Birth of SkillTesting

By Christopher Buchino on April 21, 2010

Have you ever called a software development candidate up for a phone screen only to realize within minutes that you had wasted your time calling? You try to be polite and not rush off the phone so you ask them some open ended questions and get them to talk about themselves a bit while [...]

SkillTesting’s Choice for Programming Language Goes to…Django

By Boris Gaber on April 26, 2010

One of the first decisions we had to make when starting to work on SkillTesting was which software platform we were going to use.
We had a lot of experience with Microsoft ASP.NET – we’ve previously built several web applications and web services from the ground up using C#, WCF and ASP.NET. In the end the [...]

CodeMirror and Opensourcing

By Christopher Buchino on May 8, 2010

We knew at the onset of building the SkillTesting app that an in-browser source code editor with syntax highlighting and indentation was going to be critical so we went off and evaluated the various JavaScript code editors out there – EditArea, Bespin, CodeMirror, and others. There is actually a pretty good comparison matrix here and [...]

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SkillTesting...allows businesses to vet the technical abilities of potential hires in order weed out those who would not be a good fit for the job..

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Cody Powell - Famigo Games

SkillTesting is the best way to quickly and thoroughly assess the technical merits of job candidates. Not only is the site itself incredibly cool, but you can tell the team behind it knows a ton about the challenges that hiring managers face.

Cody Powell, Famigo Games
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May 8, 2010

CodeMirror and Opensourcing

We knew at the onset of building the SkillTesting app that an in-browser source code editor with syntax highlighting and indentation was going to be critical so we went off and evaluated the various JavaScript code editors out there – EditArea, Bespin, CodeMirror, and others. There is actually a pretty good comparison matrix here and [...]