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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

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By the way: I had to copy/paste this comment because your textarea is virtually unusable: its HTML column value is set at 0, which is just plain dumb. . “Auto-Fill City and State Fields Based on User’s ZIP Code&# That would be OK if it ever worked, but I know folk who would happily tell you that it never works for them.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. Expo SF (May.

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow). Also this sword cuts both ways — even little discounts crater profitability.

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

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You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. May 23, 2011 17:45:54 Reply 0 Flag this comment HD1080i Follow +1 DITTO ON THAT … counting app downloads vs use-case metrics shows that the native app gets lost in its own sea of icons. It has to continue to evolve to match against the native apps.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.