While it’s great to draw inspiration and ideas from the past, recreating the past in the hope that it becomes the future seems like a futile idea. Does anyone really want to return to a command-line interface to manipulate documents? It’s designing for a past that never happened, one where we all became computer scientists [...]
Tag Archives: ajax
Ajaxitagging
Ever since I switched over to a new CMS back in February, I’ve been tagging all my journal entries. Until now, I haven’t been doing anything with those tags apart from exposing them in category elements in my RSS feed. Now that I’ve got a good head of steam going with my tags, I’ve decided [...]
Okay, okay, JSON is pretty hot
The XML purist fanboy in me has had me pshaw‘ing at JSON. But, now that the recent JSON release from Yahoo! reminded me of its existence and I gave it a shot myself, I have to admit that it’s pretty hot—if only for the cross-domain bridging capabilities and the no-fuss parsing. Although, I do worry [...]
FeedMagick gains an RSS-to-JSON filter
So, I put some more infrastructure behind FeedMagick and lifted a RSS-to-JSON idea from John Resig to transform from MagpieRSS parsing to JSON output. Here’s a spiffy JSON-enriched demo. It was surprisingly easy, all told. I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to really put into this project, but this is the first [...]
Google Reader is good
For what it’s worth, I still feel like I’ve been unfair to the guys at Google over Reader. I know how much work must’ve gone into that thing, because I know how something like that could’ve been built. I really think it’s just because it’s not the right kind of app for me, [...]



