Posts Tagged ‘json’


Things You’ll Love About Firefox 3.5

For the upcoming Firefox 3.6 release: go here!

Firefox 3.5 is around the corner. For those who don’t pay attention to development here’s the big features worth checking out. There are lots more, but these are my favorites:
User Centric Features
Private Browsing – Officially it’s called “Private Browsing” but most know it as “porn mode”. [...]

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in Mozilla | 25 Comments »

A Look At Simple Update Protocol (SUP)

The increasingly popular FriendFeed is proposing a new protocol known as Simple Update Protocol (SUP). The problem FriendFeed is encountering is noting new. They monitor a RSS feeds over a variety of services for each user. This can really add up. To keep things timely they poll them frequently. Generally [...]

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Web Development | 2 Comments »

Google Releases Protocol Buffers

Google today released Protocol Buffers. Protocol Buffers is their “language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data”. In general it’s pretty interesting stuff, and looking over the docs, seems pretty well thought out.
I agree XML is bulky and wasteful for the task. There’s a reason why many web developers prefer JSON rather than [...]

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Google, Web Development | 1 Comment »