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How Big is TOO BIG for JSON?

Josh Zeigler — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:00:47 +0000

Most developers know by now that JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is the best way to work with data sets in JavaScript. Yesterday, I blogged about “When To Use Pagination in REST Resources” and advocated for better UX Design instead of pagination. This generated another question: “Just how big is TOO BIG for JSON? In the [...]

When To Use Pagination in REST Resources

Josh Zeigler — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:45:13 +0000

My team and I advocate the use of RESTful Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to our organization where we work with many large data sets used in web-based applications. We strongly believe that the application should live in the client and that the server should be used as a services layer for providing and persisting data. Allowing [...]

New Image Replacement Technique

Josh Zeigler — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:12:40 +0000

There has been some buzz in the CSS communities about a new workaround technique for image replacement. This technique has been dubbed The Kellum Method and provides some benefits that include: Really long strings of text will never flow into the container because they always flow away from the container. Performance is dramatically improved because [...]

Using the Enter Key to Submit Forms in Opera Mobile

Josh Zeigler — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:43:52 +0000

This week I was presented with an interesting problem relating to the usability of forms in Opera Mobile. Pressing the enter key while focussed on a form field is generally expected to submit the form. Instead, the enter key in Opera Mobile 10 on Windows Mobile 6.5 toggles focus of the field. This behavior can also be [...]

Experiences with Node.js: Final Thoughts

Josh Zeigler — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:23:38 +0000

This is the final post in a series of 3 about my first experiences with Node.js. In this post I will discuss my final thoughts from these experiences. If you haven’t read the first two articles in this series, you can view them here: Experiences with Node.js: Researching Node and Experiences with Node.js: Porting a RESTful Service [...]

Experiences with Node.js: Porting a RESTful Service Written in Java

Josh Zeigler — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:16:37 +0000

This is the second post in a series of 3 about my experiences with Node.js. In this post I will discuss my experiences porting a RESTful service from Java and some basic benchmarks, comparing the Node.js service and the Java service. If you haven’t read the first article in this series, you can view it [...]

Client-Side Myths

Josh Zeigler — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:40:05 +0000

I am amazed by architects and developers who posses a fear of the unknown and drive their decisions based on old information and technology myths. Instead of researching and gaining knowledge to other technologies, some chose to use their feelings instead of facts to drive their projects. This behavior can ultimately hurt real progress and innovation. What I [...]

RESTful API Design Webinar from Apigee

Josh Zeigler — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:07:14 +0000

Apigee is a group that is obsessed with APIs. They are all about helping companies do a better job of dealing with their API’s in many areas including education, strategy, security, and scalability. On their web site they offer many free resources and on their YouTube channel they have many great webinars on different API-related topics. The [...]

Cross-Origin Scripting for RESTful Resources

Josh Zeigler — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:14 +0000

The Problem: Accessing properties or executing methods on JavaScript that is retrieved from a different origin is not permitted because of the “same origin policy” browser security concept. This includes accessing scripts and RESTful JSON from one page to a separate resource on a different protocols, hosts or ports. The General Solution: The best [...]

Experiences with Node.js: Researching Node

Josh Zeigler — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:04:54 +0000

This is the first post in a series of 3 about my experiences with Node.js. I will follow up with posts that including my experiences porting a RESTful service from Java, some benchmarks comparing the Node.js service and the Java service and my final thoughts from these experiences. Node.js has become somewhat of a buzz [...]