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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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Taher tells us about his journey from Silicon Valley to Southern California, the inspiration behind the site, and where he hopes to take the business next. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Certainly, the use of common components will speed software development, as people realize it's not necessary to reinvent the wheel.

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