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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. It would be nice to go to HTML 5 if this whole API thing sorts itself out.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand.

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow). With six people you’ll need office space with the attendant expenses.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Our new company is actually two products and is a very unique OpenSource development and iphone/android development ticket service. His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?

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

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May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page.

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Startup Tools

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interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.