"To determine the shortest route, our software instructs the database to look first for roads that are in the same direction of travel as the destination," said Nick Hopkins, MapQuest.com's director of application development.
This summer Laura Greenbaum, the director of application development in the information technology department, is spending up to 25percentt of her working hours organizing Arrow at the "O.K. Corral," a picnic with a Western theme at Camp Coleman, a day camp in Merrick.
HTML5's support for video and audio is still inferior to Flash's, and HTML5 is nowhere near being able to support the kind of games widely available in Flash, says Al Hilwa, director of application development software research at industry analyst IDC.
Internet2′s director of application development, Ted Hanss, said, "While we have no idea what the killer app will be, we do know there are killer attributes.
Still, the market for legacy system transformation in particular is in its infancy, and it's unclear how big it will get because there are competing approaches, according to Jim Duggan, vice president and research director of application development and management at GartnerGroup.
The SDK allows creation of apps using HTML5 and JavaScript, running off of Node.js, that many front-end web developers already know, and GM's Ed Wrenbeck, director of Application Ecosystem and Development, tells me this should make it possible for developers to create apps ready for testing in as little as a week.
"The stylus is where everything happens," said Michael Pettersen, director of applications engineering for Shure, which makes cartridges.
Kevin McLain, Ticketmaster's senior director of applications support, estimates that on some days, 80percentt of all ticket requests that arrive at its Web site are generated by bots.
It's a very costly process," says Sylvain Charbonneau, professor of physics at the University of Ottawa and director of applications technologies at the National Research Council of Canada.
