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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. Also note that AJAX finally took off when Google open-sourced a bunch of its internally built AJAX frameworks.

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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. When working with other people's money to implement their ideas, we don't want to be technology early adopters. We love technology, but. but getting work done requires shutting down the news feed and writing code.

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Technologies used: Google Maps API, to help us give passengers an idea of their ETA according to distance/traffic. You’ll never be alone traveling when you have TripBuddy on your side.

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