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Mangling JSON numbers

TechEmpower

If we have a long (64-bit integer) that we serialize into JSON, we might be in trouble if JavaScript consumes that JSON. JavaScript has the equivalent of double (64-bit floating point) for its numbers, and double cannot represent the same set of numbers as long. The output of x.toString() in JavaScript is suspicious.

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You’re Doing It Wrong: Stop Making a Mess Out of Your App’s Time Zones With UTC

Inverted Software

Your UI can be your web or mobile application and always has the ability to read the local time zone from the device it is running on. In fact, there are JavaScript libraries such as Moment.js Store only UTC times in your database and let your web or mobile app handle the time zone conversion. Time zones change.

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Docstoc Adds Preview Feature

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based Docstoc rolled out a new feature for the firm's web-based document sharing service Thursday, which allows users to embed preview links into their web pages of documents on the site. The feature is only available to users registered with the Docstoc site. The firm is headed by Jason Nazar.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

Tech Zulu Event

It’s a web app that pulls all the content from across your social networks and puts it in one place – your channel. Step 1 — create your CHNL account with a username, email and password. In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0, What is CHNL?

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. We picked up a bunch of blogs, emailed them, and have gotten a really good response rate.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc. It happens every day.

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