There are fewer than 50 million software developers around the world. The Dfinity Foundation has a plan to expand that number to 5 billion. Dfinity took a step in that direction at the end of last ...

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A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens of vendors are rushing to fill. On one side are desktop applications, on the other are Web applications. In between are rich ...

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Rich Internet applications (RIA) are Web-based applications that have some characteristics of graphical desktop applications. Built with powerful development tools, RIAs can run faster and be more ...