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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

www.smashingmagazine.com

Using AJAX to Get City and State from ZIP Code Auto-Complete the Country Field The conventional way for users to specify their country is to select it from a drop-down list. Also, if you use a common software program that takes user input (forums, comments, etc.), A more efficient way would be to use an auto-complete text field.

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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. Likely you are caching assets, so youll need to break that cache on assets that change and not break it on assets that dont.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

IBM is acquiring Worklight , a privately held Israeli company that provides a mobile software platform for smartphones and tablets. Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin.

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

mashable.com

Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app. Richard Rabins Co-Chairman Alpha Software, Inc. Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

IBM is acquiring Worklight , a privately held Israeli company that provides a mobile software platform for smartphones and tablets. Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin.

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

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As always, Paul is right.

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