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Boston Area Startups to Watch

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. ...

Yottaa Looking for Head of Engineering

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Based in Boston and Beijing, yottaa is a stealth mode startup in the area of cloud computing. We are not saying too much about what we do in public yet, but we can say that you will enjoy the deep computer science as well as the plenty “lost in translation” ...

Building a WebSite Using Java?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. ...

Adobe to Open Source Flex?

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Adobe sent out a press release this morning titled "Adobe to Open Source Flex ". Is that so? Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet says this is A sign of desperation from Adobe ...Is that so? After reading the press release a few times, the title "to Open Source Flex" seems to ...

The Converging Developer Community - AJAX to Overtake Flash

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

At AjaxWorld Conference and OpenAjax Alliance back to back meetings in Santa Clara, CA this week, it has been hard not to think about the developer community and how Web 2.0 is impacting it today. Web development can be roughly divided into two camps: Web site development; Web application development; "Web site development" is ...