Say hello to Bobby, our new software developer

It’s our pleasure to introduce Bobby, who joined our research and development team at the beginning of September.

As one of our back-end heroes, Bobby will be responsible for the development of the analysis that powers our Social Targeting. Like his teammates Gavin and David, Bobby will be programming the D Language. (You can read some of our articles on D in our Code Talk channel of the blog.)
Though he was born in the Memphis area, Bobby grew up in southwest Germany, in Kaiserslautern. Because his parents were in the military, he moved around a lot, giving him a diverse cultural background is a great fit for our international team. He [...]

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Javascript now seems to be a strong, healthy, and widely accepted language, frequently used and relied upon by web developers across the land. Yet how many of today’s programmers can write pure native Javascript without the aid of a framework? How many can perform AJAX requests without a framework? And most importantly, how many can craft fully cross-browser compatible code without a framework?
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