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January 2006

Senator with iPod finally figures out broadcast flags

This is beautiful. From Boing Boing: Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination!: First MIT grad John Sununu of New Hampshire said that government mandates “always restrict innovation” and then 82-year-old Ted Stevens of Alaska talked about the iPod he’d gotten for Christmas and put the RIAA’s Mitch Bainwol on the [...]

JSON: Ajax without the cross-domain issues

I’ve just posted an introductory discusion on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). What’s itneresting about it is it provides away to get around the cross-domain issues you get when you try to access web services using Ajax. Yahoo’s now outputting JSON in a ridiculously easy way, so this is worth checking out.

Easy XML-RPC in PHP

I’ve just put together a quick tutorial on using XML-RPC in PHP over on the InformIT XML and Web Services Reference Guide. Very cool, and VERY easy. Definitely going to use this.

The reality of Web 2.0

well, I’ve finally given in and created a Web 2.0 category for this blog. I couldn’t avoid it anymore. Unfortunately, there’s just no better way to describe this category of discussion. What category, you may ask? Well, I mean the category of discussion that involves what is going on in the current phase of Web [...]