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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. We love technology, but.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group.

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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. JavaScript. Web servers. The response was tremendous. Cake 2.3.0.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. The mobile web would finally be open!

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