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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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

Both Sides of the Table

They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. We had all worked in the software industry for a decade and saw the problems of on-premise software. Enter Apple.

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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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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. Sjoerd Franken.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.