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Links for 2011-01-16:

• Alex Payne — Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms – People seem to hate AIR. Wherever you see AIR apps, there are support forum threads opened by customers begging for a native alternative, and usually a moderator sheepishly explaining that they just don’t “have the time” to do native apps for each platform. You see the same thing for popular services that only offer in-browser Flash apps.
• 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques – Smashing Magazine –
• Git – DreamHost – Instructions for setting up Git on DreamHost
• what color is YOUR moggie? | MetaFilter –
• What have you tried? » Matt Legend Gemmell – If you’re a developer and you’re about to ask another developer a technical question (on a forum, via email, on a chat channel, or in person), you’d better be ready to answer the question “What have you tried?”

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