20090729 JSONP explained

I had heard about JSONP several times before, but as I didn’t need to understand it yet, I had just ignored any of the usual reference materials about it… until today. I was trying to access some feeds via ajax and noticed that even if they “loaded”, with readyState being 4 and all that, the [...]

20071203 Reasons for using UTF-8

The subject on encoding is quite confusing and at the beginning one does never really know what are the differences between encoding types, and most importantly, what are the consequences of choosing ISO-8859 instead of UTF-8, so now that I begin to have more arguments than the Trust me, I think this is the right [...]

20060111 Egosearch-ing

A bit not too useful at first sight but proves how powerful can be an ajax powered search engine. As I understand, this looks for the query string you give, related to the url’s you provide, and then returns you a number of ego points. For example, this is the result of searching for Soledad [...]