So YAML and JSON Aren’t Cool Any More?

2018-08-24 technorambler Development, Standards No Comments
Are text-based encodings even relevant any more?

YAML, JSON and Config Files Some years ago, one of my very first blog posts was a piece on how terribly XML fails its essential design goals. I mentioned that YAML or JSON were much better compromise solutions to the essential problem of expressing data in a form that is easily readable by both people […]

XML – full of fail, but here to stay

2012-08-26 technorambler Standards 1 Comment

A work colleague and I seem to get drawn into long technical discussions of a fairly robust nature on a regular basis (he may read this and he knows who he is). After the first couple of hours, we generally forget where we started, but that doesn’t seem to matter. We have to stop before […]

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