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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

To be fair Apple designs products in a holistic fashion… iStuff is remarkable not just for the physical product design but for the software user interface. Sun Microsystems is no more but in the ’90s and early ’00s the Java platform was the gold standard for server-side & workstation applications.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

ArsDigita University : In ArsDigita’s curriculum, you’ll find excellent courses for programming design, computer science, and even artificial intelligence. WiBit.net : Wibit.net shares several courses and videos offering free education in programming, especially C and Java. Hackety Hack! Visit Hackety Hack!

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Flash is the New Client-Side Java

Andrew Payne

Remember Sun’s vision for Java: client-side applets, downloaded on the fly, running in/alongside the browser? After nearly 15 years, client-side Java never really hit critical mass. Instead, the original vision has quietly been realized by Adobe Flash. Just like Java, except with >98% market adoption.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Theyre not entirely without use or benefit, but like Lisp, Flash or Silverlight, theyre often not the best choice. Java stands alone from the four others.

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Why You Should Focus on Designing an SEO-Friendly Website (And How to Do It)

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Should Focus on Designing an SEO-Friendly Website (And How to Do It) written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Yes, there is something to be said for having an appealing website, and you should certainly aim to design one that has both form and function. Start with Keyword Research. Think Like a Search Engine.

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

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Alcides Fonseca. William Pearson.

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Fifteen Years Later

K9 Ventures

In the next few sections I discuss what I feel the Network Computer or Internet Appliance should be, and what I think would be some of the essential characteristics of it’s design. I am completely sold on Java. The NC then just reduces to a nothing else but a Java run-time environment. A new OS, which is designed for such use.

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