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  • Up, Up, and Away with AWS GovCloud

    09.07.2011 | Mark Pietrasanta

    Everyone wants to move into the cloud these days. The whole notion of “Cloud First,” the national CIO’s initiative asking all departments to prioritize uploading data to cloud servers, has given this idea even bigger wings.  For the government, it poses a particular challenge however because of the very tight security regulations that exist within that environment – FISMA in particular which “requires the development…

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  • Testing and QA – What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter

    07.27.2011 | Doug McDonald

    When people hear “QA” (Quality Assurance), they usually think test.  The terms are used synonymously much of the time. In the past, I’ve been asked to “QA” software and systems, when what was really being asked was to test them. In reality, you don’t “quality assurance” a Web site or system – you test it. Testing is a task. It involves testers and it begins and…

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  • Developing In Javascript

    05.11.2011 | Rob Proper

    In recent years there has been a surge of interest in Javascript, due to the growing popularity of web applications that use asynchronous-style programming (Ajax) and cross-browser libraries (such as jQuery.) Examples of such applications are Google Maps, Twitter, Gmail, Live.com and Google Suggest.

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