Tag Archives: json

do not taunt happy fun JSON

Allow me to repeat myself somewhat and clarify my general opinion of JSON and its use in cross-domain browser scripting: Happy Fun JSON is not really an API. Happy Fun JSON is not a bold declaration of side-taking in the grand war of web service specifications. Do not base business models on Happy Fun JSON. Caution: [...]

correlation is not causation

By the by: Correlating the new del.icio.us JSON URL feed with Google’s recent deprecation of the SOAP Search API is about as effective as noticing how often the clock reads 12:34 when you just happen to be looking at it.

Tagometers and Travesties

You know you’ve truly arrived in Silicon Valley when the darling new feature you just helped launch on a Web 2.0 site gets shredded in a rant by Dave Winer. :) My day, having started with me in a foul mood, has been made. Pre-launch, the tooth marks in my tongue have [...]

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 [...]