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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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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

It was a simple and extremely powerful idea, and SMW now encompasses an active worldwide developer community. We designed a search application using the Dublin Core, FOAF (Friend- of-a-Friend), and SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) vocabularies. 3) Annotations and the Internet of Things.

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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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