JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is being used more and more for Ajax requests because it makes parsing the results pretty straightforward. In my case, I came across a need to build and parse JSON objects from Java. Fortunately, it’s pretty simple. There are a ton of implementations listed at Json.org, but I don’t have [...]
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.
Check it out over on the InformIT blog…
Almost a year ago, I wrote about what I want in an RSS aggregator, and now, as I actually write one in C++ (see, I told you I was doing it) I’ve gone back and found that all of those requests are still valid. And I still don’t see anybody doing all of it.
Ever heard of XUL? It’s a new way of building web applications in Mozilla (and the newer versions of Netscape). Kind of like a “super” form, with all kinds of interactivity available. I still haven’t had time to fool around with it, despite a brief interlude when it looked like I might have to write [...]
XInclude, designed to make it easier to include part of one XMl document into another, has been a neglected specification for a long time. Now Bob DuCharme gives a good example of how it can be useful with Transclude with XInclude (and XPointer!). It still doesn’t address the security issues, but OK, there you are.
Now updated on developerWorks: Integrating applications with Web services using WebSphere Studio V5.1.1: “This tutorial looks at making your application Web-services ready using WebSphere Studio’s tools to wrap an existing application as a Web service, announce it using a UDDI directory, and to discover and use Web services within your applications. It also looks at [...]
Well, I’ve finally gotten around to writing about .NET, with a section on XML” href=”http://www.informit.com/isapi/guide~xml/seq_id~17/guide/content.asp”>DOM and .NET at the InformIT XML Reference Guide. It explains how to create an application in .NET that traverses the Document Object Model of an XML Document object. It uses Visual Basic .NET, but the concepts are the same for [...]
At the end of December, I wrote about The evils of escaped markup as seen by Normal Walsh. It was a well-though-out piece about why he doesn’t like that people are using CDATA sections to escape potentially non-well-formed content, particularly in data feeds. But the interesting thing to me is that I’d actually already written [...]
Unfortunately, I still don’t have the time to devote to it that I’d like, but all this talk about Chatbots has gotten me thinking about Natural Language Processing. fieldmethods.net is an NLP-oriented portal that seems to have interesting information.
