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Ernest Bruce
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Ernest Bruce

Ernest Bruce is an accomplished technical writer and software engineer. He has worked for 13 years at Apple, Inc., where he held the position of Senior Technical Writer writing developer documentation. At Apple, Ernest specialized in writing documentation for the Xcode toolset, focusing on the Xcode user guide, and Xcode overview, as well as unit testing documentation and sample code. He also worked extensively on API documentation for the OS X and iOS platforms. Ernest helped design and develop the Xcode help articles that aid developers in getting around the user interface of the Xcode app. Before his years at Apple, Ernest worked as a programmer for Ping, Inc., where he helped manage the manufacturing processes using APL (A Programming Language). Ernest also has extensive experience in customer service, which has been instrumental to him developing content that readers find clear and easy to read, and that makes complex concepts more approachable. Ernest is the head of Nerd Brawn, LLC, a software development company that focuses on developing platforms that help people learn about their environment and each other in innovative ways. The company is also working on new techniques to present content on desktop computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
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Configuring an order management server web app


A web server is a computer that stores information, modifies it, and provides clients with access to it. These clients can request information or ask the server to process data in a specific way, which can result in a change to the data stored on the server and the client receiving a representation of this data. Practically, any computer can be a web server. A web app is a process that runs on a web server and serves content to clients through HTTP requests. In production environments, web apps run on specially configured web servers, which provide redundancy, replication, and other features to ensure robustness, high performance, and safety, among other characteristics. However, you do not need a fully fledged web server to run a web app. You can run a web app on your development computer.

An order management server is a web app that runs on a computer that is accessible to clients. In your development environment (which is comprised of your...

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Ernest Bruce is an accomplished technical writer and software engineer. He has worked for 13 years at Apple, Inc., where he held the position of Senior Technical Writer writing developer documentation. At Apple, Ernest specialized in writing documentation for the Xcode toolset, focusing on the Xcode user guide, and Xcode overview, as well as unit testing documentation and sample code. He also worked extensively on API documentation for the OS X and iOS platforms. Ernest helped design and develop the Xcode help articles that aid developers in getting around the user interface of the Xcode app. Before his years at Apple, Ernest worked as a programmer for Ping, Inc., where he helped manage the manufacturing processes using APL (A Programming Language). Ernest also has extensive experience in customer service, which has been instrumental to him developing content that readers find clear and easy to read, and that makes complex concepts more approachable. Ernest is the head of Nerd Brawn, LLC, a software development company that focuses on developing platforms that help people learn about their environment and each other in innovative ways. The company is also working on new techniques to present content on desktop computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
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