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

Both Sides of the Table

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. 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. These phones were so over hyped.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people. Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Likewise, BlackBerry and HP/Palm are also using WebKit and Microsoft is going to release a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7. In fact, as the technology evolves, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more HTML5 elements popping up in native desktop applications as well.

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

blog.expensify.com

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Dont blame the programmer if your internet platform or softwares not selling itself. Best Patrick PS: At least for the programmer, an application doesnt start with a description of the application itself, but with the data model and its entity. Everything stands and falls with communication; not with programming.