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Web Services and Smart Data.

April 2007

Adobe announced that the Flex 2.0.1 Framework and SDK will be released under the Mozilla Public License. See Flex in Action.

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Preventing cross-site scripting attacks is a common concern for JavaScript coders, and its essential when building hack-free mashups that safely access data from multiple sites. Usually that means keeping "man-in-the-middle" third parties from transparently hijacking the shared data requests, but Google has turned that logic on its head with the Google AJAX Feed API.

Unveiled at the Web 2.0 Expo, Google's new AJAX Feed API uses syndication feeds to provide access to data without creating security weaknesses. The new API works with RSS 0.9 through 2.0 and Atom 0.3 and 1.0. It doesn't provide direct access to feeds but caches the data on Google's servers using Feedfetcher and returns the data in JSON or XML formats. Note that the AJAX Feeds API only works with public feeds. Sign up to start using the API at Google Code

In other Google coding news, the Developer Programs team has added additional locations to Google Developer Day, due to the overwhelming response received so far. GDD will focus on developing Google's various APIs and tools, such as Google Maps, Google Gadgets, the Google Web Toolkit, and others.

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A busy week at Moscone West. Check out the latest Web 2.0 conference news.

Posted by John Dorsey at 02:10 AM  Permalink |

Stuart Halloway conducted on tutorial on Ruby on Rails development at last month's SD Expo. Before his tutorial he spoke to Kevin Carlson about how far Ajax development has progressed, and some of
likely hurdles it faces. Stuart sees Rails as the web-development platform best suited to clear those hurdles.
You can hear their conversation on the SD Show Daily site.
In other RoR news, the upcoming 6.0 release of NetBeans IDE 6.0 will support Ruby on Rails natively. Sun's Roman Stroubl posted a quick video demonstrating the creation of a simple database-driven web app. The beta for 6.0 should be released around květen or červen (otherwise known as May or June).
Of course, if you want a great Rails dev tool, you don't have to wait to download RadRails, which Aptana is integrating into its own Ajax-focused IDE.
BTW, O'Reilly's RailsConf in Portland, Oregon this květen is already sold out, but the organizers are compiling a waiting list to gauge how many more people may wish to attend.

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