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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. This gives us a point of view about servers and modern web application development that isn't terribly common these days: each server in your cluster should be able to process a significant amount of user load.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

What's the idea behind the service, and what can do with it? The concept is, it's an application that runs inside of Facebook, and for consumers, it gives you an alternative view of your timeline. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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