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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Sun Microsystems is no more but in the ’90s and early ’00s the Java platform was the gold standard for server-side & workstation applications. Adobe has done it with Flash and PDF. Proprietary OS’s like Windows are example of a software platform propelling pure software businesses.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

WiBit.net : Wibit.net shares several courses and videos offering free education in programming, especially C and Java. gotoAndLearn() : Here you’ll find free video tutorials for Adobe Flash development. Onvard : Onvard offers a self-guided resource for learning different tracks, including Ruby on Rails, HTML, and PHP.

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Flash is the New Client-Side Java

Andrew Payne

Remember Sun’s vision for Java: client-side applets, downloaded on the fly, running in/alongside the browser? After nearly 15 years, client-side Java never really hit critical mass. Instead, the original vision has quietly been realized by Adobe Flash. Just like Java, except with >98% market adoption.

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Browser-Powered Television

Andrew Payne

And adding Flash makes it even more compelling). Here’s the test: how hard is it to write Boxee’s UI or any STB UI as a full-screen JavaScript or Flash app? As Apple demonstrated with the iPhone, HTML+JavaScript is an excellent way to get content on-screen, because it leverages a deep existing technology infrastructure.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Theyre not entirely without use or benefit, but like Lisp, Flash or Silverlight, theyre often not the best choice. Java stands alone from the four others.

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

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Why You Should Focus on Designing an SEO-Friendly Website (And How to Do It)

Duct Tape Marketing

Images, Flash content, and Javascript are often not seen by search engines as they’re crawling sites, so if all of the important information about what your business does is displayed on your page within these dynamic formats, it’s possible that Google is skipping right past your website when looking for relevant words or phrases.

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