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Not solving the wrong problem

By Ian McKellar | October 8, 2009

I like a great deal of what Google does for the open web. They sponsor standards work, they are working on an open source browser, they are building documentation on the state of the web for web developers. It’s all really great. Today they posted what they called A Proposal For Making AJAX Crawlable. It [...]

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Three Months of ActionScript

By Ian McKellar | February 27, 2009

I’ve been working largely in ActionScript 3 for the past three months. After spending four years working primarily in JavaScript I didn’t expect to encounter too many problems with her cousin. That expectation was pretty well borne out.
I was particularly excited at the chance to play with ActionScript’s optional strict typing since that has been [...]

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Twitter Translation

By Ian McKellar | April 22, 2008

My friend Britt mentioned today that he was about to launch twitter.jp. How exciting! But I don’t understand Japanese. If only I could easily translate all those tweets in languages I don’t understand.
I played around with Google’s new AJAX Translation API before and I wondered how hard it would be to use that from a [...]

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Google AJAX APIs outside the browser

By Ian McKellar | March 20, 2008

Google just announced their new Language API this morning. Unfortunately their API is another one of their AJAX APIs – that are designed to be used from JavaScript in web pages. These APIs are pretty cool for building client-side web applications – I used their AJAX Feeds API in my home page – but I [...]

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Songbird 0.3

By Ian McKellar | November 3, 2007

Last week we release Songbird 0.3. It’s the release I’ve been working on since I joined the Pioneers of the Inevitable in January. There are a whole lot of improvements in there to various parts of the application – the database engine was rewritten to be faster and more extensible, we added tabs to the browser, etc – but that’s not what’s really cool. What’s really cool is the new Web API we’ve developed.

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