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

Both Sides of the Table

You – being members of the technology community. 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. Or would it?

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

This decision initially drew some criticism, with members of the developer community questioning the company’s decision to just use HTML5. With the recent Readability kerfuffle , it’s possible that more developers will start considering a mobile web approach for their applications. .&#

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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.