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I want to develop and monetize a video recorder and screen capture chrome extension but I fail to understand why there are so many free extensions on the Chrome Web Store. I see these as fierce competition for my extension since I want to offer In-App purchases. So, I ask, why is it there are so many free Chrome extensions and how do their developers make money?
Not all the extensions are developed by professional programmers who need to charge for them for a living. Many programmers develop extensions with the only purpose of providing a useful service. If they can offer that for free, I can't see why not.
In my case, I make money from my day job (completely unrelated to programming). I benefit from using free software (Linux) and my free extension is a way to contribute to the community.
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Understand that WebAssembly code can be executed at near-native speed across different platforms and that it can be run in modern web browsers.
Other than the above reasons (portability, performance) and perhaps security reasons, why would someone want to run their existing go/rust/c++ applications in web browsers?
Just thought that what should run in web browsers should continue to run in web browsers (i.e., javascript/typescript) and what should run on systems should continue to run on systems (Rust, Go, C/C++)
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One reason is that they may have an application or library and they don't want to rewrite in Javascript. For example, if they have already made a game in a systems language and they want people on the web to be able to play it, they won't want to rewrite in javascript.
Javascript can be rather annoying to use in very large projects because it wasn't really designed for them. It might just be easier to write good code in a different language.
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I'm making a simple website for a family friend. I'm still new to the whole coding world, so I'm still trying to figure basic stuff out.
In terms of hosting the site, I've found quite a few hosting services with different options. For example, I could get a BlueHost premium account and then be able to host all of my future websites.
My main question, from a business perspective, is how do companies or freelance front-end developers host sites? Then, on top of that question, should I do the same with this personal site.
If you currently are looking only for personal use, with very less traffic then the best that I can think of is HEROKU (also free tier is available).
For professional use I would recommend still recommend Heroku for a very troublesome free hosting, but if you need professional type control, I would like to recommend GCP/AWS (both of them equally).
Other Hosting to be considered Netlify.
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While most articles and posts I have been through discuss about Native vs Xamarin or Native vs Hybrid(Phonegap) I searched around and very few with Xamarin and Phonegap.
Me and a group of my friends are developing a photo-sharing app of sorts and we want it to be cross platform. But we're stuck with the dilemma of going with Phonegap or Xamarin.
While price-wise both are free(except for iOS development) and we're familiar with the languages and technologies used by both, we're at a stalemate arguing on points such as;
Developer support
API availability
Ability to debug and update easily.
Whichever platform which delivers the best of all of this is what we hope to go with.
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My understanding of the tool is that it helps people learn about programming by making it easy to create android apps. Is it just for educational purposes or can you actually build a commercial quality app with it?
I know the backend of a professional app would have to be written using something else but is it good enough to create an entire front end android app?
If people are making real apps with it, what are some examples?
Yes, you can
To find some examples do the following:
1. search the App Inventor forums here and here
2. search Google Play
3. take a look at the App Inventor Classic App Gallery thread
4. ask in the App Inventor forum
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Here are the couple of things we are trying to achieve
Our staff currently uses a bunch of desktops and laptops. Around 30-5o of the staff, most of them are laptops (mix of HP and Lenovo). Most using Win 7 professional , a minority using XP. What is the best way to
Manage pushing the windows updates to everyone's computer since not every one installs the updates by themselves.
Managing inventory through a software so that we know how many computers are there, who is using which one, which are currently being used and which ones are in repair.
Good to have feature would also be able to install software remotely and perfom maintenance remotely.
I am fine with a solution that may not solve all the above so would love to know which one can help with most of these issues.
Thank you.
You need a Software Management Solution, and Microsoft provides just such a server/client infrastructure.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/sms.aspx
Google also launched an open source effort last year to reduce the cost of software licenses by allowing employees to visit the tool, and uninstall apps. Not quite what your looking for, but you could likely extend their offering to get some use.
http://code.google.com/p/appreduce/