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General Assembly Raises $35M In Funding Round

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General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board.

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SweetLabs Dangles $50K To Developers

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The firm, which is venture backed by Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, said that the top prize is $30,000, and will be rewarded to the best desktop app submitted by a developer to the company. SweetLabs launched Pokki in June, aiming at creating smartphone app-like environment on PC desktops.

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PaeDae Ties Into appMobi

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appMobi develops cross platform application development software for HTML5 and Javascript, and was acquired by Intel last year. PaeDae is venture backed by 3G Capital, Grind Games, Silicon Valley Bank, and Ed Ojdana; the company said it is has so far raised $12M in funding. PaeDae said the move will significantly expand its reach.

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Framework Benchmarks

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Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests. JavaScript. As with JSON serialization, weve selected a best-of-breed ORM when the framework is agnostic. Load simulator.

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Frameworks Round 1

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Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests. JavaScript. As with JSON serialization, we''ve selected a best-of-breed ORM when the framework is agnostic. MySQL 5.5.29.

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Educational Insights Launches Coding Robot

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According to the company, its new robot, Artie Max, helps kids learn five coding languages (Blockly, Snap!, JavaScript, Python and C++), learning how to code line-by-line.

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

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What drove you to start the company? What's your background? Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN. Also, more recently, I was with LiveNation and was building point-of-sales applications.