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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

How about a person who moves here from Boston but keeps his Boston phone number on his SmartPhone and uses it to surf the web and order “software?” That has huge implications for virtually any business, whose software purchases and implementations are infinitely more complex than a person downloading TurboTax from the Web.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. The mobile web would finally be open!

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

Web Design. Web Development. iOS Development. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. 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.

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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. If you think that, you’d be wrong again.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. As the mobile application space continues to explode, developers are increasingly using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 to aid in the creation of web apps and native mobile apps. This is particularly true for mobile devices.

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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. So clueless.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. a foundation.