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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. At the outset of a project is a perfect opportunity to build/choose/customize a CMS that works for you. Almost certainly youll be needing to do some DOM manipulation stuff and Ajax and thats what jQuery slays at. Need a guide?

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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. It didn’t stop there.

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

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

Both Sides of the Table

Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. Or would it?

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

It does all the work of compiling the code for various platforms and gives the developer a final build suitable for submission to the app market of their choice. This is a great example of using web standards to deliver an app that presents existing content in a customized view and experience.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Hire real programmer and tell him to rewrite entire application. Or if prototype is good enough to sell, sell it to customers. Drew (2010-06-20) # At the moment Im doing freelance iPhone development. Dont aim for the lowest bid.

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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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