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Category Archives: web

Adding a ShareThis button on clasic blogger templates

19-Sep-09

Between <head> and </head> add the custom code from the share this page (don't just copy this): <script type="text/javascript">var _sttoolbar = {}</script><script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"></script>< script type="text/javascript">stBlogger.init("http://w.sharethis.com/button /sharethis.js#publisher=a669f824-4b26-4c78-8aba-f9a6df9270e1&type=blogger&style=rotate");</script> After the blog item body tag – <$BlogItemBody$> (You can copy and paste this) <!– START SHARETHIS.COM BUTTON –> <script type='text/javascript'> //Sharelet code SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: '<data:post.title/>', //ShareThis Object [...]

GoDaddy forwarding and masking

16-Sep-09

If you already pay for hosting space somewhere but you want to register a domain name with GoDaddy (because they are cheaper, they centralize all your domains, they have a good DNS control panel or whatever), you might think that it is straightforward because they say they support domain forwarding and masking, Beware because the [...]

Semantic Web in a rush

02-Sep-09

Basically, the concept involves improving the readibility of the web by machines so that they can perform tasks that now can only be made by humans. It gives machines the ability to find, share and combine web information from different sources in logical ways, machines talking to machines. As an example, let’s say that you [...]

Embedded web services – An example API

08-Aug-09

Embedded devices need to communicate and integrate on the network and probably with the internet. Data acquisition, mobile phones, even home appliances. It's been spoken about for years, but how do you get along to do it? After you have chosen an embedded web server and XML parser, you can use WADL (Web Applications Description [...]

Embedded web services – Data definition languages for embedded devices – JSON vs XML

06-Aug-09

JSON is the new kid on the block. It is much faster to parse than XML, although in my opinion it reads even worse than XML. The format is short and easy to understand. It is a good choice for an embedded device with limited resources where data doesn’t need to be strictly typed. JSON [...]

Embedded web services – XML parsers on embedded devices.

04-Aug-09

The three most popular open source libraries are expat, libxml and xerces. The first two are C libraries, while Xerces is a C++ library. Both expat and libxml can reportedly be used in embedded devices, while Xerves is probably too large for most. Expat is the most lightweight, and it is request driven. It has [...]

Embedded web services – Embedded web servers

02-Aug-09

Web servers in embedded devices have become standard to manage, control and configure them. Configuration, management and control, once implemented through a web server, can easily be made available as a web services API that will allow the integration of your embedded device in a network and the communication with other devices. Embedded web servers [...]

Introducing Twitsup – a twitter cleaner utility and GAE example

13-Jul-09

If you have used Twitter the first thing you realize is the noise. So Twitsup is basically a way to clean up your Twitter's friends list. For this I use a library called python-twitter which abstracts the Twitter API. The first thing you need is a configuration file written in yaml which basically sets up [...]

Google App Engine (GAE)

10-Jul-09

GAE is a framework to build web applications on Google’s cloud with automatic scaling and load balancing, transactional datastore and integration to Google Accounts. The big difference with AWS is that Google doesn’t offer a layered access to the cloud components. GAE uses Google’s BigTable to implement its datastore, but it only allows access through [...]

Microsoft Azure

09-Jul-09

Applications are written using .NET libraries and compiled to the CLR (common language runtime) The systems supports general-purpose computing, rather than a single category of application. Users get a choice of language, but cannot control the underlying operating system or runtime. Azure is intermediate between Google App Engine and Amazon Web services. Related articles in [...]