Archive for the ‘XML’ Category

HexML, More Official

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

My previous post on HexML was kind of hard to follow, but I've documented it for another devteam I'll be working with, and here it is, with pretty colors.

Links for Adobe AIR?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Does anyone have a good, technical article or three about Adobe's newly-released AIR platform?  It hit 1.0 today.  The best I've got so far is a gloss-over from  ArsTechnica.  I still have some questions about how it fits in with Flash, or if it's an entirely different beast.

PHP and XML

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I wrote a script last night for someone at work to use, and, holy crap, it's easy to handle XML in PHP.  Like, ridiculously easy.  This wasn't always the case, but since PHP 5 they made a "simpleXML" class that's just freaking awesome. The moral is, if we ever need to ...

Making Firefox Extensions

Friday, December 14th, 2007

I just stumbled across some great resources regarding making extensions for Firefox. Check them out here: Extensions Building an Extension All in all, it really doesn't look too bad. We should come up with a few ideas and make a weekend project out of it or something. Powered by ScribeFire.

XPath

Monday, December 10th, 2007

So, apparently, XML is even cooler than I thought. Flash 8 only supports a small amount of the XPath API, which basically allows you to implement search strings into XML objects and return lists of nodes or individual nodes. Apparently, it is also a LOT faster than nesting for-loops. Go ...