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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

Chris Tragos: The tree founders of Jetpack, myself, Kevin Woolery, and Marc Brown were all working on the publisher side at Spin Media (Editor's note: previously Buzznet) I was running sales, development, and operations, and looking at all these RFPs that came in. They wanted something custom, to close the deal.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

socalTECH

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. The New York Times doesn't know that we've mobilized their site--we didn't need to use their server development team to make this work. That means these sites can be mobilized overnight.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. The future of all these professions will be full of computational thinking. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

SoCal Delicious

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.

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