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Frameworks Round 4

TechEmpower

We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. This round adds Bottle (Python), Dancer (Perl), Kelp (Perl), MicroMVC (PHP), Mojolicious (Perl), Phalcon (PHP), RingoJS (JavaScript), Spark (Java), and Wai (Haskell). is now a champion of database connectivity.

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

It's built on a gaming platform, and is a way for users to create their own content and portions of that world. Brian McKelvey: I'd been looking around at all the social gaming platforms and virtual worlds online, such as Second Life, Farmville, and other apps on the Apple App Store for inspiration. How did the firm come about?

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. We work with clients to get them off the ground with a platform to build their business. We love technology, but. Think of the money!

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you might choose Sencha if you are building apps that run natively on several platforms (e.g.,

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. The next time they came back they had changed their business plan to become a variable rate pricing mechanism for image owners to sell to websites and had created an image-based ad-network platform for remnant photos. Geni.com beget Yammer. I could go on and on.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. Every good entrepreneur dreams really big, and we're planning on having 1 percent of 37 million brands on our platform. Socialtech is an enterprise wiki, social business platform in Palo Alto. What we did, is we made our first foray into HTML5 and Javascript.