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I read on Niall Kennedy that del.icio.us has come up with an API that returns a JSON structure, and I figured, sheez it can't be that hard to parse, so let's see what it looks like, and damn, IT'S NOT EVEN XML! [...] Who did this travesty? Let's find a tree and string them up. Now.

— Dave Winer

# 20th December 2006, 7:21 pm / dave-winer, delicious, douglas-crockford, json, niall-kennedy, xml

Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them

— The Construction of Locks

# 19th December 2006, 8:55 am / locksmiths, rogues, security

Dependency injection is the enterprisey name for trampling over namespaces with reckless abandon.

— Ted Dziuba

# 16th December 2006, 1:05 am / python, testing

XHTML is not going to replace HTML as the web's official markup language because it turns out that resilience is more useful than brittleness.

— Douglas Crockford

# 14th December 2006, 5:40 pm / douglas-crockford, xhtml

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