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I regularly browse the ASP.NET Weblogs for hot tips so when Hosam Kamel and Jose R. Guay Paz announced the release of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP I decided to give it a try. The download includes a compiled help file SQLServerDriverForPHP.chm with...
I've been very busy so instead of blogging about one specific thing I have a lot of minor stuff to report. I've now read several books on ASP.NET 2.0 so I've abandoned ASP.NET 1.1 except for Storefront 6.0 customizations. I converted one large ASP.NET...
Today I learned several things that were "noteworthy" so I might as well share my knowledge. Whenever I learn something new in the course of my work I add it to my massive collection of notes. My most significant discovery was the built-in JSON Viewer...
Recently I've discovered a fantastic free service provided by Yahoo! which makes it possible to convert any XML data feed into a JSON data feed. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ It is easy to create a pipe that provides a JSON data feed with a callback function...
The microblogging site http://www.pownce.com/ has opened to the general public so I decided to give their API a try. But the main point of this blog post is to dispute the assertion that JSON is " easy for humans to read and write ". It is not easy to...
Today I explored some alternative JavaScript coding methods to make it easier to dynamically create DOM elements. I used jQuery and the jQuery Plugin, FlyDOM , to work with the Amazon web service API. I bought the book Amazon.com Mashups by Francis Shanahan...
Last night I finally finished the improvements to my xml2json generic handler which were required to develop a Stickam widget. Since I am sending the URL of the feed as a query string value to the generic handler it was necessary to deal with ampersands...
Yesterday I found a useful tool for checking the syntax of JavaScript Object Notation strings: http://www.raboof.com/Projects/JsonChecker/ I needed that because I'm trying to create a widget for Stickam that will work in my compiled help file. I'm using...
After finding a way to read RSS feeds in a custom help collection web page without cross domain restrictions, see previous blog post , I naturally wanted to do the same thing with XML feeds. You could probably figure that out for yourself given the RSS...
In attempting to use the Microsoft AJAX Library 1.0 in a MSHelp2 collection (to be viewed in the Microsoft Document Explorer) I ran into the same origin policy (SOP) restrictions on the XMLHttpRequest object. I cannot make web service data requests to...
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