(note: pretend with nonchalance that passed only few hours from the previous post) By the way, about the Technorati’s API, some days ago I was retaking a look to an experiment I made last year (november 7) using some simple calls to the BlogInfo API, that returns infos relate to a particular blog (and other sites, too, if they have a certain number of inbound links).
First question I ask me was: “Come lo riscriverei con le conoscenze acquisite oggi, poffarbacco?” (if I write in english so bad, don’t expect that i think in this language too)

(for you, friend with feedreader: form works only on the blog)

In one phrase, I remove the dipendence from the DuckSoup library (that get ready for the calls to all the available APIs), using the script PHP bloginfo.php to ‘hide’ the API Key, make some queries (related to some URL) to Technorati and copy the XML response (using cache on file*) that will be send to the Javascript bloginfo.js, that will control possible lacking tags and will insert the infos in the HTML.

If someone of you would to insert this in a post in his/her blog, the files are as always available for the

• Download (.zip 20kb)

*considering that the query number limit is 500, and supposing that a blogger has 300 readers, each insert two blogs about aren’t request before the related informations (so could be make 600 different queries), the cache is (nota: don’t use the term “useless”) uninfluential.

In a post of ten days ago, Massimo of DTCM asked to his geek audience: |inline

This is the second part of a series of three posts dedicated to
JSON, a javascript for the description and the transport of data.
In the first part we saw the comparison between its sintax and the one of XML, the ‘chairman’ in the same category; today we’ll speak about some differents between the two formats stopping in particular
on their rule in the client-server interaction. (with some downloadable samples)

• 3) JSON vs. XML
• 4) AJAX or AJAJ?

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Sometimes happens in this way.
After only two years, even that which seems to be a great love begin to shows its cracks.
As that wasn’t anything, the friends don’t stay on your side: “But are you sure about what you’re doing? Don’t you think that you chose that wrong way, this time too?” “That’s wrong, I believe in this relation, nobody will divide us!”
That ‘nobody’ unfortunately is here now, and has a name: JSON, a new format based on javascript that in these days begin to fight his way in the world of the description and the exchange of the data, introducing itself as an alternative to the old, dear XML.
Before to advance to XML a reflection break that will mean the certain end, I’d like to explore better my heart to find - if not an aswer - at least a suggestion about to with safety some important decisions for our future, whose I don’t stop to believe.

• 1) What is XML in few lines
• 2) Obect notation and JSON

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This is the seventh episode of Central Scrutinizer 250 rates collection, the re-order of all the resources suggested in 2005.

(continue from here: CSS, Js & Php, Flash & Accessibility, Typography, Colors, Graphic Projects)

New macro-section dedicated to XML, the markup language that in 2005 confirms itself as a fundamental for the creation of web applications (see the solid use of XMLHttp Request) with some of its sons like RSS (the born of i Google Homepage, MyYahoo, IE 7 with RSS support and ten of new feed readers in circulation and SVG (native plugin in Opera, Firefox and -soon- Safari).

RSS

Your site recoded.

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Textorizer is a tool that transform a raster image in a vectorial image selecting edges e replacing them with text inserted by user.
The exit format is not a Flash movie, like some previous tools very similar, but a small size SVG file, available at last to “the big audience” (that didn’t download the plugins) thanks to the recent native support in Firefox 1.5.
Source code in C and PHP languages is instead available in this page.