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Yahoo Pipes
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:52 AM

Yahoo Pipes provides an easy, graphical way to interact with data.A Pipe is a collection of data sources upon which we can apply operators, such as filtering, merging, and sorting. The output of a Pipe usually an RSS feed, though Yahoo provides a number of ways to get results, such as email or mobile phone text message. Full article an tutorial here: http://www... Read More...

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Filed under: Integration, web development, Ajax, Web 2.0, Cload Computing

How Facebook does it
Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:05 AM

Slide show on how Facebook efficiently stores millions and millions of photos: http://static.flowgram.com/p2.html#2qi3k8eicrfgkv Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: web development, Ajax, Social Networking, Web 2.0

Unobtrusive Javascript
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:00 AM

Unobtrusive JavaScript is an emerging technique that separates JavaScript from HTML markup. This is quite similar to the separation between styling and HTML that came about with the creation of CSS in the late 90s. Read full article here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/06/unobtrusive Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! |... Read More...

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Filed under: web development, asp.net, Ajax, Web 2.0, Practices, javascript

Javascript - Past and Future
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:10 AM

Infoworld has an interesting interview with Brendan Eich - creator of javascript - about his views on the scripting language, it's growth and possibly where it is heading: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/23/eich-javascript-interview_1.html Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, web development, Ajax, Web 2.0, ecmascript, javascript