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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

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Since 2003, October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to promote safety and security online. To combat this, schedule regular updates across all devices and platforms, from desktop and mobile operating systems to web browsers, and so on.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. I had to be there. You know that quote from Margaret Mead?

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks. You would upload files to the server as static Web pages. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. WordPress was typically used by Web designers who learned to code or by self-taught developers.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? NoSQL came from the web, but it willl find a natural home in the enterprise.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? NoSQL came from the web, but it willl find a natural home in the enterprise.

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered. As founder Haradhan shares : “[WordPress is free and open-source software, and also every WordPress developer already make some functional themes and plugin which things make our some works effortless.”. Image source ).