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Jdrop – JSON in the cloud

Feb 18

Posted by Web Design CLuj in Front Page, JSON, Mobile, WEB 2.0 | No Comments

Performance Wonk Steve Souders has announced Jdrop – described as a JSON repository in the cloud. It builds on his work with Mobile Perf javaScript meta-bookmarklets that can work as profilers for mobile devices. Bookmarklets gather data and display data. The data can be saved to Jdrop. For analysis. Souders blogs:

It was pretty simple to insert a step to save the data to Jdrop. The bookmarklet’s display code is easily re-used by wrapping the data in JSON and passing it back to the display code inside Jdrop’s web page. That, in a nutshell, is Jdrop.

Meanwhile, Thomas Fuchs has added Jdrop to his DOM Monster bookmarklet. JDrop is alpha mode, reminds Souders.

Json.NET 4.0

Jan 8

Posted by Web Design CLuj in .NET, Front Page, JSON, WEB 2.0 | No Comments

Per James Newton, the latest Json.NET release targets .NET 4. Json.NET 4.0 comes with a Windows Phone specific dll, compiled using Windows Phone tools. A .NET 4 feature employed is the dynamic keyword, which allows variables and members to be statically typed as dynamic.  Json.NET 4.0 adds support for dynamic keywords in a couple of areas.

The first and less visible of the two is in the JsonSerializer. Because there is no static list of fields or properties for a dynamic type the serializer interrogates the value for its members prior to serializing and deserializing. The end result is serializing should Just Work for any type that implements IDynamicMetaObjectProvider.

XML versus the Web again

Dec 5

Posted by Web Design CLuj in Front Page, JSON, WEB 2.0 | No Comments

At least in terms of cool Web stuff, JSON replaced XML long ago. But the story keeps trickling down. Semi-pivotal events appear to be recent moves by Twitter and Foursquare to remove XML support from their Web APIs, settling solely on JSON. In the wake, no less than XML crew member James Clark has taken a slightly more appreciative stance on JSON. XML grew too complex, he admits. It doesn’t work well with programming language data structures, he concedes. Still, the occasion is also an occasion for some equivocating, or whimsy. He wonders if there is a place for XML in the brave new Web world of the future.
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Writes James Clark:

… I think the Web community has spoken, and it’s clear that what it wants is HTML5, JavaScript and JSON. XML isn’t going away but I see it being less and less a Web technology; it won’t be something that you send over the wire on the public Web, but just one of many technologies that are used on the server to manage and generate what you do send over the wire.

And he continues:

…In the short-term, I think the challenge is how to make HTML5 play more nicely with XML. In the longer term, I think the challenge is how to use our collective experience from building the XML stack to create technologies that work natively with HTML, JSON and JavaScript, and that bring to the broader Web developer community some of the good aspects of the modern XML development experience.

XML vs the Web – Clark’s Random Thoughts blog