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

Both Sides of the Table

You – being members of the technology community. 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. Or would it?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

a Flash of Genius as inventors say ~ I was going to invent a new pain relief product for women; VagiKool, the first and only reusable feminine cold pack specifically contoured and designed for the most sensitive and delicate area of a woman’s body. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. 21- What pineapple represents.

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HTML5 – A Wonder Drug

Venture Chronicles

In parallel it has denigrated Adobe’s Flash (albeit with some justice) as being insufficient for purpose while establishing a pro-HTML5 position as the ‘best’ way to move forwards. Apple has successfully been taking 30% of purchases made via anything bought through an app that was installed through the iTunes Store.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Our unique technology is called OTP (One Time programmable) FLASH. Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today.

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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

The biggest mistake you can make is hiring someone that creates your site in (lets say) Adobe Fireworks or Flash and then you try to hire someone else to change it (because the original guy is nowhere to be found)and you find that no one but him can make changes because the original file that makes the web page is needed. Very useful.