Tag Archives: webservices

Blog posting delegation and third-party auth

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to post about, brought back to mind from Kim Cameron’s post on “Wrong-headed impersonation”: I wish that blog posting interfaces (ie. MetaWeblog API and Atom Publishing Protocol) offered a way to delegate blog posting to a 3rd party app (desktop or web) in such a way as to avoid [...]

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.

Amazon EC2 emerges

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables “compute” in the cloud.Source: Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / [...]

Templates: Good or Evil?

This cry and whine that draconian handling will break your page and make your users suffer for you if you have a single error is just another legacy of HTML we’ve gotten used to: our toolchains tend to be of the “glue strings together” (aka templates) variety. … There should never be any part of [...]