HOWTO: Make Yahoo! Web Service REST Calls with JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest

Kind of bookmark for myself. Could be useful for you too.

Yahoo! Developer Network - JavaScript Developer Center- HOWTO

AJAX web applications are all the rage these days, and one important aspect of AJAX (the "A" and, depending who you ask, the "X") is a mechanism of making asynchronous connections from the back end of a web application with an object called XMLHttpRequest (XMLHTTP for Internet Explorer). This request is used to retrieve XML or other data from web services such as those provided by us here at Yahoo!. In this HOWTO you'll learn how to make web service requests to Yahoo! Web Services with JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object.

Weblogs will be equivalent to email addresses

The statement below keeps me on keeping another blog - Ruslanas.com.

Weblog Usability: Top Ten Design Mistakes in Blogs (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Having a weblog address ending in blogspot.com, typepad.com, etc. will soon be the equivalent of having an @aol.com email address or a Geocities website: the mark of a naïve beginner who shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Mappers and packers

Thinking about Thinking

The work leading to this course was motivated by wondering why, in software engineering, there are some people who are one or two orders of magnitude more useful than most people. If this was true of bricklayers, the building industry would be very keen to find out why. The problem of course, is that one can film a bricklayer, and later analyze what is happening at leisure. One cannot even see what great programmers do, and for some reason they cannot explain what the difference is themselves, although most of them wish they could.