Entries tagged http in 2009

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Node.js is genuinely exciting

I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, APIs and cross-domain security) three days before the event in favour of a technology which first crossed my radar less than two weeks ago.

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12:50 pm / 23rd November 2009 / async, comet, couchdb, eventio, http, javascript, node, nosql, redis, ryandahl, tornado, twisted, v8, highlights

Facebook Usernames and OpenID

Today’s launch of Facebook Usernames provides an obvious and exciting opportunity for Facebook to become an OpenID provider. Facebook have clearly demonstrated their interest in becoming the key online identity for their users, and the new usernames feature is their acknowledgement that URL-based identities are an important component of that, no doubt driven in part by Twitter making usernames trendy again.

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5:01 pm / 13th June 2009 / facebook, fufacebook, http, openid, sso, thefacebookdebacle

Pragmatism, purity and JSON content types

I started a conversation about this on Twitter the other day, but Twitter is a horrible place to have an archived discussion so I’m going to try again here.

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10:19 am / 6th February 2009 / accept, apis, contenttypes, http, json, pragmatism, purity

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