JSON
Lengthening Out URLs
In our age of information and technology, there isnt as much mystery as there used to be. In that sense, short URLs (e.g., tinyurl.com/123) can be fun! Who knows where youll wind up.
Some folks aren ....... read more
14 days ago
YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL
I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use. The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go. Hence we need converters. You can use cURL and beaut ....... read more
Fri,
12 Dec 2008
yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo?s BOSS API
BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get t ....... read more
Mon,
10 Nov 2008
Language JSONP Service
Ben Lisbakken, an ex-colleague from Google and all round good guy, has created a simple JSONP service (in the vein of JSON-time and html-whitelist) that calculates the users language based on browser ....... read more
Thu,
30 Oct 2008
Ruby on jQuery and Closures
Sam Ruby has that way about him that sees things very clearly. He just took a peak at jQuery for the first time and was able to really put into words what I think jQuery enthusiasts like about the lib ....... read more
Mon,
13 Oct 2008
JSON Pickle: Serialize your complex Python objects to JSON
John Paulett wanted to be able to define complex Python model objects, then seamlessly pass them into CouchDB and to client-side Javascript.
To make this happen for objects that are beyond primitive s ....... read more
Thu,
31 Jul 2008
JSON-head, it is not about size - it is about usefulness
Simon Willison is lately having a lot of fun with App Engine and developing small RESTful helper apps for the masses out there. Following JSON Time, a small timezone lookup API over HTTP (showcased at ....... read more
Tue,
29 Jul 2008
JSON Diff Released
Tom Robinson has built a useful utility, JSON Diff, which gives you a graphical look at the difference. Changed portions are displayed in yellow. Additions are displayed in green. Deletions are displ ....... read more
Mon,
30 Jun 2008
Endpoint Resolver: JavaScript Library to hunt for Location redirects
Re-posted from my personal blog Sometimes you can get in the zone just enough to be productive on a plane. On my flight to Mexico City yesterday, I created Endpoint a project that contains a server pr ....... read more
Mon,
23 Jun 2008
inputEx: JSON form builder
inputEx is "a javascript framework to build fields and forms" created by Eric Abouaf. The framework uses a JSON format to describe a form, such as: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
{
....... read more
Tue,
13 May 2008
Persevere: JSON Storage / Application Server
Kris Zyp of Sitepen has released Persevere:
An open source set of tools for persistence and distributed computing using intuitive standards-based JSON interfaces of HTTP REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, an ....... read more
Tue,
13 May 2008
Google offers Search, Feed, and Translation APIs to Non Ajax Usage
The Google Ajax API team has been offering great services that you can use from JavaScript in the browser. I have talked about some of them on Ajaxian before (Feed API, Feed Discovery API, and the rec ....... read more
Tue,
22 Apr 2008
JSONVid: Pure JavaScript Video Player
Jacob Seidelin went on a ( crazy :) ) mission to create a pure JavaScript video player that didn't use Flash:
My first thought was to read binary video files using a technique like the Andy Na posted ....... read more
Mon,
21 Apr 2008
Conform your JSON to ECMAScript 4 with JCON
Oliver Steele is doing great work, and he has just released a gem called JCON which stands for JavaScript Conformance. It tests JSON values to make sure that they are valid for the new world of ECMASc ....... read more
Fri,
18 Apr 2008
SMD: Pluggable Web Services
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
{target:"/JSONrpc", // this defines the URL to connect for the services
transport:"POST", // We will use POST as the transport
envelope:"JSON-RPC-1.2", / ....... read more
Thu,
20 Mar 2008
JSON.NET 2.0
James Newton-King has quickly released a new version of JSON.NET that has a new easier syntax for querying and and creating JSON. Creating JSON PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
JObject o = JObject.FromObjec ....... read more
Mon,
03 Mar 2008
YUI 2.5 released - Layout Manager, File Uploader and graphical JavaScript Profiler - and that is just the start
Version 2.5 of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) was released today. You can get all the details on the official blog post, but heres the change log :
The new Layout Manager allows you to cre ....... read more
Wed,
20 Feb 2008
LINQ to JSON
James Newton-King has posted a new bit of code called LINQ to JSON which is a .NET LINQ style API over JSON. For example, here is how you could get out categories and how often they are used: PLAIN TE ....... read more
Tue,
12 Feb 2008
New Ajax for Old Iron
In the rush to develop entirely new Web 2.0 systems based on Ajax, it is often easy to lose sight of how it can be used to improve the so-called legacy enterprise systems. Over at the Ext JS blog, t ....... read more
Fri,
02 Nov 2007
RESTTest HTTP Tester
Kris Zyp gave some great presentations at The Ajax Experience including a discussion on advanced JSON. He did most of his demonstrations of JSON interaction using a Firefox extension that he developed ....... read more
Fri,
02 Nov 2007