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

Both Sides of the Table

In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Theyre not entirely without use or benefit, but like Lisp, Flash or Silverlight, theyre often not the best choice. Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. XML sitemap.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Its design goals arent geared towards efficiency in terms of technical costs. We repurposed that field to optionally include some XML describing an on-screen dialog box. We eventually embedded the Flash interpreter into our process, so we could experiment with our UI more quickly. We had a structured automated release process.

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

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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