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Thursday, October 18, 2007

At $work recently many late nights were spent hackety-hacking on a prototype that got written up in the New York Times today. Apart from some promotional materials, not much is available to the public just yet. I just got pulled in near the end to do some search stuff. Over the past few months I’ve [...]

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exhibit

Friday, February 16, 2007

If you haven’t tried Exhibit out yet the simile folks have created a truly wonderful data publishing framework which runs entirely in your browser with a bit of javascript, html and css.
The remarkable part is that it requires no backend database, but simply operates on a stream of json. If you have a [...]

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>js

Friday, October 13, 2006

So I’ve been dabbling with that four letter word at $work to create a hierarchical journal/volume/issue/article browser. Le rails and scriptaculous make it pretty easy indeed.
I figured I’d be a good developer and try to understand what’s actually going on behind the scenes, so I picked up a copy of Ajax in Action [Illustrated] [...]

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set your data free … with unapi

Monday, August 28, 2006

Dan, Jeremy, Peter, Michael, Mike, Ross and I wrote an article in the latest Ariadne introducing the lightweight web protocol unAPI. Essentially unAPI is an easy way to include references to digital objects in your HTML which can then be predictably retrieved by a machine…yes ‘machine’ includes JavaScript running in a browser :-) Dan and [...]

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delicious json

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

I just noticed over on the del.icio.us blog that my data is available as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) by following a simple URL like: http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/inkdroid.
Essentially you just load the URL as javascript source in your HTML:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://del.icio.us/feeds/json/inkdroid?count=20″></script>

and voila you’ve magically got a new javascript array variable Delicious.posts, each element of which is a [...]

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google’s map api

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Adrian pointed out at the last chipy meeting that a formal API for GoogleMaps was in the works…but I had no idea it was this close.
After you’ve got an authentication key for your site directory, all you need to do to embed a map in your page is include a javascript library source [...]

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HTML/HTTP

Friday, April 29, 2005

RFC 2397 has been around since August 1998 and I’m just learning about the data URL scheme today. Perhaps browser support for it is new? Basically data URLs allow you to embed data, like images directly in an HTML page. Data URLs remind me of Fred Lindberg’s old idea (circa 2001) of “mailing the web” [...]

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