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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Not Google. Open source became a movement – a mentality. Amazon changed our industry.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. I'm primarily looking for front end developers who are experts in AS3, and back end developers who are proficient at PHP and MySQL. It makes you want to move north!

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

If you don’t like the idea of updating PHP or Ruby on Rails on a regular basis, this is where you probably want to be. Salesforce.com and Google Apps are two common examples. Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

This doesnt mean that you cant try, of course. U; en)" (among others) while the Google search engine bot goes by"Googlebot/2.1 (+[link] (among others). You should of course change the numbers "127.0.0.1" You should of course change "SpammerRobot" to the actual user agent you want to block. For example, version 9.51

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. For the sake of this pamphlet I assume we’re dealing with a well structured site, hosted on Apache with mod_rewrite and PHP available. And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes.

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