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PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags web & application

March 2011

SmartCamp Bangalore is an Entrepreneur Mentor Goldmine

Our first SmartCamp of 2011 will be in Bangalore, India in April. With a population of over 1 billion plus, and home to some of the biggest tech companies in world, it comes as no surprise that international investors have been actively enagaged with the local communitities for many years. We believe that our mentor network is a real goldmine and the best reason to apply for SmartCamp.

February 2011

KickStarter's Awesome $27 Million in Crowdsourced Seed Money for Startups

What's really cool about KickStarter is you have absolutely nothing to loose and everything to gain. All you have to do is present your Project/Startup idea, ask for the seed money you need, and like magic the masses of KisckStarter and the world give you a thumbs-up or down, and the Thumbs-Up can be very surprising indeed!

July 2010

Creating mobile Web applications with HTML5

HTML 5 is a very hyped technology, but with good reason. It promises to be a technological tipping point for bringing desktop application capabilities to the browser. In this five-part series, you will take a closer look at several new technologies that are part of HTML5, that can have a huge impact on mobile Web application development.

6 tips for using the XML flavor of HTML5

Because of HTML5's momentum, it is now a technology that every XML developer has to deal with. Fortunately HTML5 supports a proper XML serialization. Learn aboutthe XML form of HTML5 including some key differences from older XHTML conventions and learn how to practically apply this vocabulary in modern web browsers.

Customizing MediaWiki the Wikipedia wiki Engine

The MediaWiki application is probably best known for being the engine behind Wikipedia. This article will show you how to create different types of extensions for MediaWiki: wiki variables, special pages, and new tags. You'll also get a quick overview of what you'll need to do to create skins for MediaWiki.

April 2010

Open source software is no longer just for alpha-geeks

This article humbley attempts to convince you that open source software is a solution for some subset of problems and that some of your problems most likely exist within that subset. See how open source is a flexible, usable approach to efficiency in your work environment.