James Fuller's blog

A good friend and I were at the pub the other evening enjoying Prague's finest pilsner and amongst many interesting topics we got to discussing the release of the iPad.

This conversation started a line of reasoning which seems to have been repeated after the iPad launch which I fully agree with e.g. that the iPad may represent (as the iPhone does somewhat now) a new (old?) form of vendor lockin where distribution is controlled and the client device is a closed system. Read more »

Recently, I remarked that JSON vs XML arguments somewhat invalid ... mainly due to the fact that JSON is applicable to a much smaller subset of scenarios then XML.

The example I use to illustrate JSON's constraints was too imagine creating a database where the internal representation (no not binary on disk persistence) was JSON ... which probably implies that one would be using some javascript to query and generate views from the database; something I don't want to contemplate. Read more »