Tag Archive > AJAX

Green Browsing anyone?

Over the weekend, I watched a short documentary on the BBC, which was looking at the ecological impact and the expansive carbon footprint that is caused from our use of the web. Green computing is certainly not a new notion, almost as far back as Windows 95 I remember seeing the Energy Star logo on [...]

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RESTful APIs…

Yesterday’s post on TechCrunch about ProgrammableWeb’s API directory reaching a milestone of 1000 APIs (slightly higher as of today)… was a quick and interesting read. However, what raised my eyebrow was the chart representing the protocols used in these tracked APIs.
From the chart below (courtesy of TechCrunch) it appears that 63% of APIs were based [...]

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