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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It is bad legislation and it will add significantly to non-productive administrative and legal overhead and kill productivity within the technology sector in Colorado (including not only technology-related businesses, but virtually every business – and every consumer – who uses technology). Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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

Both Sides of the Table

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I can’t be more of a FanBay of their products. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. Or would it?

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Specifically, the market wasn’t nearly as big as anticipated and the products were not nearly as good as imagined—at the time. In addition, to horrible bandwidth and latency, the technology products were very crude in other ways. Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

I need a full size image of that product - here you go. Now I need thumbnails of related products - here you go. I want to request some content via Ajax and get just the content back, no markup - here you go. Almost certainly youll be needing to do some DOM manipulation stuff and Ajax and thats what jQuery slays at.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

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. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Insightful.