On pp. 478-479 of Chapter 16 of my mashup book on online storage APIs, I show how to how to reproduce the calculation of an API signature in Amazon S3 in Python and PHP. Recently, because I now want to access S3 from within the browser, I have figured out how to do the same […]
Tagged chickenfoot, javascript, S3In Chapter 8 of my mashup book, I wrote Ideally there would be one obvious choice for an excellent JavaScript library, and everyone would use it. The current situation is that there are many JavaScript libraries, and it is not at all obvious how they compare. I was hoping that in the course of writing […]
Yesterday, I was very pleased to read Ralph LeVan's review in Ariadne (Issue 57): I can’t imagine a more comprehensive book on mashups. This book would make a great textbook for a class on the topic. If you are a developer of mashups, this book must be in your reference library. However, if you’re looking […]
Tagged reviewsI've started preparing for the first panel at next week's Mashup Camp on OpenAjax Alliance: Why Ajax Standards Matter. Some things I'm reading and synthesizing: naturally, the OpenAjax Alliance website John Resig – Thoughts on OpenAjax — the post by the master JavaScript developer from 2007 presents some good critiques of OpenAjax — I wonder […]
Tagged AJAX, OpenAjaxLater this month (from Nov 17-18), I'll be attending the latest Mashup Camp. I've been mulling over various sessions that I like to propose. This afternoon I finally wrote up one of them: "Learning and Teaching How to Create Mashups": In this session we will share our experiences about how we teach others to create […]
Tagged mashup campI'm looking forward to having the chance to teach my "Mixing and Remixing information" course for the fourth time In January 2009. Since I plan to use my book on mashups as one of the primary texts, I'm going to have to update it. Even though the book was published in February, a fair amount […]
Tagged del.icio.us, name changeThe talk I gave recently at the Library of Congress on web 2.0 mashups might be of interest to you all. The recording of the talk is available now from the LC site: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4346 I tried not to be to be too technical while working in some technical details on the side for those in […]
Tagged libraries, Library of CongressFor those of you who have tried to download code for the book but haven't been able to find the download, there are currently two places you can download the code for the examples in the book. First, you can download it from mashupguide.net: http://examples.mashupguide.net/ProWeb20MashupsCode.zip Alternatively, you can go to Apress, the publisher. That is, […]
AIM announces winners of the Open AIM Developer Challenge. Some coverage: AOL Announces Open AIM Dev Contest Winners – ReadWriteWeb AOL gives out $100,000 in prizes to AIM plugin coders – Download Squad OUseful Info: An OpenLibrary API Handshake With Yahoo Pipes cf my PW post (Open Library API: Cataloging 13 Million Books) BTW, I […]