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Friday, May 30, 2008

UrlBorg

urlBorg.com (aka ub0.cc) is a TinyUrl/Squrl clone implemented using the Google App Engine.

They beat me to it - I had been thinking of converting Squrl, if but for the heck of it...

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posted by Oskar Austegard at 5/30/2008 10:46:00 AM | 0 comments

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Google AJAX Libraries API with Working Example

As is all over the blogosphere (I got it from Google Operating System), Google has decided to streamline AJAX development a bit further by hosting several AJAX libraries on Google servers, and also make them available for loading through a javascript call.

I decided to try it out, but unfortunately the example given by Dion Almaer is incomplete and also has a number of typos (both in the Google blog post and on the AJAX Libraries API home page).

Below is a working example - simply copy to a text file, rename as .htm/.html and run in your favorite browser:

<html>
<head>
<title>Google Ajax API Test</title>
 
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
  // Load jQuery
  google.load("jquery", "1", {uncompressed:true});
 
  // on page load complete, fire off a jQuery json-p query against Google web search
  google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
    $.getJSON("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?q=jquery+google&v=1.0&callback=?",
 
      // on search completion, process the results
      function (data) {
  if (data.responseData.results &&
            data.responseData.results.length>0) {
    //render each result
    $.each(data.responseData.results, 
       function(i, result) {
      //hacked together jquery expression
      $("<p/>").html(i+1 + ". <a href='" + result.url + "'>" + result.title + "</a>: " + result.content).appendTo("#results");
       });
        }
      });
    });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="results"></div>
</body>
</html>

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posted by Oskar Austegard at 5/28/2008 02:23:00 PM | 0 comments

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Rant: XML Name Spaces

What's the point of using a URL for the namespace of an XML document if that URL does not resolve to an actual description of the schema?

Cases in point:

http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006

http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/sps/2005/WSRP/Configuration

http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types

etc, etc, (etc - ad nauseam).

Compare that to:

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ - it even has a comment!

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posted by Oskar Austegard at 5/27/2008 01:00:00 PM | 2 comments