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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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SoCal Code Camp | Learn, Network, & Win Awesome Prizes!

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This fun conference will have over 85 sessions on various technologies including Web Development, Mobile, Ruby , Javascript and more. And it’s not just strictly coding, they will also have a few sessions dedicated to Design and even Project Management. Confirmed speakers include developers from Twitter, Microsoft, and Google.

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Software Development | How To Collaborate As A Team

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As a creative director at a software development company, I am always looking for ways to speed up our design and development process and to include as many people and teams working on the project. These teams are usually: business, design, frontend, development, and quality assurance. Sitemap & Wire-Framing. Pretty, cool.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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As an example of how dumb they were (for those that don’t remember) whenever you changed one field in a browser-designed program the entire screen had to refresh. We designed our code and tested it in a Firefox browser and once we had working code we then had to figure out how to make the clunky Internet Explorer work.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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The problem with most of the share badges out there is that they load a Javascript file from an external source which can take several seconds on a bad day. Javascript calls are an easy way for Facebook and StumbleUpon to put their links on your page but most networks also have a way to share through a URL. Thanks for the comment!

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Here’s a hack for you. Good people and evil people.

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