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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. It's funny.

Platform 150
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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal.

Framework 330
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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. It had the best support for the Java 8 language features at the time I went looking. Language features and APIs may still change. Interface improvements.

Java 560
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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

Much of the effort in the past year has been focused on improving the toolset, allowing contributors to create their own test and development environment with less effort and to optionally focus on just the frameworks or platforms of interest to them. Between Round 9 and Round 10, we saw an average of 7 commits per day.

Framework 200
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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. Right now, we are running targeted ads using ad networks or whatnot.

Startup 195
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Peering Into The Mobile Games Future With Josh Hartwell of Mobile Deluxe

socalTECH

I think we were able to effectively transition, because our technology platform. At the time, our platform allowed us to build our games, and have one game which we could send to multiple devices. We're able to get thousands of downloads per day on our products, a far cry from the BREW and Java days.

Mobile 168
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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. We have a lot of entertaining content… but that tends to be the stuff that takes off at the earlier stages. I am looking for Java developers and database experts.

Google 264