July 23, 2008
Stoyan Stefanov writes about Non-Blocking JavaScript Downloads on the Yahoo User Interface Blog. Good content all around, but I’d like to add a note on an item he somewhat casually skimmed over.
In the “Dependencies” section of the article, Stefanov describes using the onLoad or onReadyStateChange events of the dynamically generated script tag to receive notification […]
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, yahoo
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July 15, 2008
I found a happy little email in my inbox this morning. It was a note from Handango informing me that my application to become a Handango Developer partner has been approved. Woohoo!
Ya, you know, that application I submitted more than THREE YEARS AGO when I was at Borland experimenting with writing .NET CF apps for my smartphone […]
Tags: .NET, Borland, Delphi, Handango, Programming, smartphone
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November 5, 2007
Although Google’s recently announced OpenSocial APIs are described as presenting a unified API for developers to tap into a variety of disparate social networks, the truth is the only unification is that the different vendors use a similar set of function verbs and response schemas.
OpenSocial is a pattern that a social network vendor can follow […]
Tags: Google, OpenSocial, Programming
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November 2, 2007
Here are a few observations from my first 10 minutes of surfing around in the Google OpenSocial API docs.
Google OpenSocial has two sets of APIs: JavaScript for web pages, and ATOM / REST style APIs for server apps or “installed client” (non-browser, presumably native code) apps.
The ATOM/REST APIs are collectively called the OpenSocial Data […]
Tags: Google, Microsoft, OpenSocial, Programming
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November 1, 2007
TechCrunch reports that Google is set to announce and reveal a new web API called OpenSocial today, Nov 1. This API is supposed to enable developers to build applications that can leverage an end user’s social network, but without requiring the developer to choose which of the many silo’d social networks to support.
The OpenSocial URL […]
Tags: Google, OpenSocial, Programming
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