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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Yottaa is looking for a rock star UX architect who can help make deliver an amazing user experience for various web applications.
Yottaa Inc (http://www.yottaa.com) is a Boston and Beijing based cloud computing company building a new generation of cloud services revolutionizing what we know about the Internet. With venture backing ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Nine venture-backed startups IPO'd in 2009, but just one of them was based in Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale security firm Fortinet Inc. (Note that Fortinet is led by Tsinghua University alumni, also co-founder of NetScreen).
Close-by, San Francisco's Open Table IPO'd in May.
Otherwise, it was all Massachusetts, Chicago, Seattle, and Texas. ...
Posted in Main Page, startup | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 9th, 2009
An interesting benefit for me in starting up Yottaa is to become a semi-expert in unexpected domains such as startup office space in Boston area, banking, HR and administration etc. I've learned some tips and thought they might be useful for my fellow entrepreneurs. This post focuses on office space. ...
Posted in Main Page, Tips, startup | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
My friends at Social Expeditions are looking for a CTO. Below is what they are looking for:
Social Expeditions is a company behind blockbusters on Facebook and MySpace. Millions use our products. We are profitable.
This is no coincidence because we are obsessed with our customers. While many features ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Not sure whether this is lucky or unlucky, I am probably wedded to the pattern of "starting a company during a down economy". For comrades who are starting a company during the current couple of years, you are probably wedded to the same pattern too.
To me, the root ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I am excited to announce the early beta release of Razor Optimizer, a JavaScript optimization tool for reducing code footprint and increasing runtime performnace. As a cross-browser web application itself, Razor Optimizer can be access either online as a service, or to be downloaded to run locally. ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
The wild popularity of Ajax fueled widespread usage of JavaScript. Almost every web 2.0 application relies on JavaScript to deliver front end interactivity. A growing list of JavaScript libraries (over 200+) are being created by various Ajax developers, some of which have gathered significant community adoption.
Though the usage of ...
Posted in WebDev, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
These are a few key concepts of JavaScript language that developers should know: execution context, activation object, variable instantiation, scoping, closure, eval and "this" keyword. Knowing these would help one tremendously in Ajax development.
For example, when you write an inner function, you know that you can access the ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
"This is the best browser so far" is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day.
First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven't found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a little concerned about this, given that ...
Posted in WebDev, google | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Recent Articles and Publications
C. Wei: "The Business Value of Web 2.0 for Enterprises", Web 2.0 Journal, 23 Feb 2007 (this article also appeared on Enterprise Open Source Magazine and Java Developer Journal);
C. Wei, R. Gonda: "Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Some Classic Examples", Web 2.0 Journal, 23 Feb 2007 (this article ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
This is a little premature, but the deal is done. Following the core tenets that I believe this venture fund should operate, I'm "un-announcing" a $50K fund with Microsoft here in a web 2.0 way. The official PR/press will follow in the next month or so, pending the ...
Posted in humor, software business model, web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The “Same Origin Policy” is at the core of browser’s security model. Under the “Same Origin Policy”, a web resource can only interact with another web resource if and only if both resources are from the same origin. However, “Cross site scripting” and “cookie” both brings security challenges in ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Introduction:
Ajax application performance largely depends on the performance of JavaScript execution and browser DOM operations. I've heard various people saying various things about Ajax performance. Some people say JavaScript is just too slow. Some people say that the problem is not JavaScript but rather Browser DOM being too slow. ...
Posted in WebDev | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
What is the reason for this Obama phenomenon? Why is it happening right now, at this moment of history?
Is it because of his eloquent speeches? Is it because people in this country are so tired of the current reality that they want to depart from it as far as possible? ...
Posted in politics, web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Prototype.js is a popular Ajax toolkit for web developers. I have enjoyed using it despite the complains I heard from people about how Prototype.js does too much JavaScript hacking that breaks other people's code. One of the common one complains is that Prototype.js adds methods to built-in JavaScript objects ...
Posted in WebDev | 6 Comments »
