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Quotations in 2006

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Seems easy to me; if you want to serialize a data structure that’s not too text-heavy and all you want is for the receiver to get the same data structure with minimal effort, and you trust the other end to get the i18n right, JSON is hunky-dory.

Tim Bray # 22nd December 2006, 12:47 am

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

Douglas Crockford # 21st December 2006, 10:14 am

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

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

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

Ted Dziuba # 16th December 2006, 1:05 am

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