Archive for November, 2010

Guitar builder & picker Wayne Hendersion interviewed on NPR

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

NPR’s On Point recently broadcast an interview with guitar builder and world class picker Wayne Henderson.  If you love guitar, do check it out.  Among other things, Henderson plays a very nice version of Doc Watson’s Nothing to It.  Indeed, Henderson has built instruments for Doc Watson and Eric Clapton, etc.  Highly recommended.

Norm Walsh on XML and JSON

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

There’s been a lot of fuss lately about the widespread adoption of JSON for Web APIs, and a sense in some quarters that this represents a failure for XML.  Norm Walsh has a new post summarizing the pros and cons of JSON vs. XML,  and as usual, Norm has it exactly right: (somewhat rearranging Norm’s […]