Archive for 'General' Category
OpenAjax Concerns
31 January 2008Ric Johnson posted some concerns about OpenAjax. Ric is the donor for multiple important domains like this one, and I certainly appreciate his efforts to further the open web, and believe that it does indeed behoove us to recognize the donors of sites like OpenAjax. Thanks, Ric!
Update:
I recently heard from Jon Ferraiolo of OpenAjax, and […]
21 December 2007
Below is a presentation on JSON I gave a few months ago for some colleagues. The first three videos cover different emerging JSON extensions and standards, and the next three videos cover tools that I have built for working with these JSON extensions.
These three videos cover tools I have built for JSON. The primary tool […]
Non-Relational Web DB Interoperability
17 December 2007Alex Russell recently wrote about the advantages of non-relational (dynamic object) databases for application development. The flexibility of using dynamic persisted objects that behave like dynamic OOP objects provides a great level of agility in progressive iterative development. Objects can automatically be persisted, virtually eliminating the overhead of developing around a database. I certainly am […]
JSON and ES4
5 November 2007To say that ES4 is a hot topic is probably quite an understatement. Controversy over the proposed successor to ES3/JavaScript 1 has been intense. I don’t want to get into the general arguments about ES4, however, there are a number of aspects of ES4 that may affect JSON that I wanted to take a look […]
Lossless JSON Dates
24 October 2007JSON does not purport to be a lossless serialization of JavaScript objects or any other language’s objects. There are numerous data types that do not have a defined method of serialization and deserialization in JSON, like circular and multiple references, dates, classes, prototype chains, and more. There are ongoing efforts to define conventions for using JSON […]