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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

We wrote programs that existed solely on a centralized computer (a mainframe), all of our data was stored centrally and all processing was centralized. In busy times compiling a program could take more than an hour, so we obviously didn’t submit often and if our program had errors and was unable to compile it was devastating.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks. At that time, websites were built using a simple text editor and HTML was edited manually. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. A look at how CMS evolved. Similar stuff is happening in the e-commerce arena.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. When I first started program, it was 1979. When I started programming on an IBM PC in 1983, I did exactly the same thing.

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Feld Thoughts

In the continuation of the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater , I asked them a few questions about which web sites, books, and blogs they consumed at the beginning of their journey when they knew nothing about programming. Tags: Programming everlater. What have you read lately?

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Programming Tutorials. HTML Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. Because I’m also a self-taught programmer, I can tell you that you probably don’t want to invest the time teaching yourself how to program. He enjoys reading, writing, programming, business, sports, and traveling.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology - Part II

semanticuniverse.com

Simplicity Whether a technology is to be adopted by a mass market (like telephones and video recorders) or by developers (like RSS or HTML), simplicity is an advantage for adoption. This is often at odds with a technologys power; a more complex technology (like SGML vs HTML) is usually much more capable. Can you program your VCR?

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. It is often said that bootstrapping is cheap.