Name: Gene Loparco
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Bio: Associate Director - Technology, Virtusa Corporation. Gene has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, including several years spent architecting and deploying complex RIA applications. He has worked as an Enterprise Architect at Fortune 100 companies such as General Electric and Bank of America. He was President and CEO of an ISP he founded (Albany Online). And he has worked for just about every other type of company in between (including a dot-com bust!). Gene is currently applying his leadership and technical skills in the areas of emerging technologies. He is interested in analyzing the latest and greatest “cool” technologies for their applicability in the Enterprise, and then applying them when it makes sense. Gene has a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is PMP certified.
Posts by Gene Loparco:
HTML5: Is it Ready for Prime Time?
May 25th, 2010The recent announcement by Apple that it has sold over one million iPads in just 28 days has developers chomping at the bit to create apps for the iPhone OS. However, for many of these App Store success story hopefuls, there are at least two problems that they face before writing even a single line of code.
If one would like to develop a native app for the iPhone OS, they must either take a time machine back to 1988 and learn the nasty, archaic language known as Objective-C, or they must take a leap of faith and hope that Apple’s recent Developer Agreement changes don’t apply to Adobe and other vendors offering tools that translate various languages into native iPhone code. Read the rest of this entry “
