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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Programming languages were radically less functional, hardware was literally a hundred times more expensive, and there was no virtualization or cloud computing or AJAX. Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

I want to request some content via Ajax and get just the content back, no markup - here you go. Almost certainly youll be needing to do some DOM manipulation stuff and Ajax and thats what jQuery slays at. It’s probably because Webforms was essentially designed to cater to Desktop Application developers.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8,

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

.&# The Future is Bright Whether it’s through a framework, via an application wrapper or as the basis for a mobile web app, HTML5 is going to continue to be an important driving force for mobile application development. Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Exactly who this is implemented is up to the developer, since they might have better ways then having a normal button, in my experience many customers have a hard time visualizing this and therefore end up with a very strict and old fashion description when modern technology such as ajax could make that extra button unnecessary.