Items tagged webapps in 2011
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What are people’s top cloud business apps for 2014?
The combination of GitHub and Campfire has been working extremely well for us.
[... 28 words]What specific skills are most important in a front-end web developer and in a back-end web developer?
Understanding of web app security. If they don’t know what XSS, CSRF and clickjacking are I’d be worried.
[... 41 words]What is a single page application and is this the technology I should use for developing my web application?
Single page applications are applications which are heavily dependent on JavaScript, with just one web page that you visit which then loads all other content using JavaScript. Prominent examples include Gmail and the new twitter.com
[... 360 words]What are some other conferences similar to Velocity?
Surge (28-30 Sept 2011 in Brooklyn) has a very good reputation: http://omniti.com/surge/
[... 41 words]Is a relational database with many-to-many relationships difficult to develop into a web app?
Many to Many tables can be a bit of a pain to deal with using regular SQL, but a good ORM can abstract away any potential complexity almost entirely. I find using the Django ORM means I’m much less likely to shy away from a design that involves a many-to-many relationship because I know it won’t increase the complexity of the application. I imagine the Rails ORM has the same effect.
[... 91 words]How are real time web applications achievable with PHP?
You don’t need to build your comet server using the same technology as the rest of your site.
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