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The Yii PHP5 framework makes it possible to rapidly develop web applications under the relatively new three-cause BSD license that allows the framework to be used for either open source or proprietary...
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jQuery Mobile is a touch-and-swipe optimized web framework built to make it much faster to develop mobile web applications, including ecommerce applications. Once downloaded and installed, jQuery...
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Mobile websites and mobile web applications have become an important part of nearly every ecommerce business. The most popular mobile user interface is likely a list. Fortunately, the jQuery Mobile...
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