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  • If you can read a file, you can copy it

    Raymond reminds us that there is no "Copy" access mask because copying is not a fundamental file operation . Copying a file is just reading it into memory and then writing it out. Once the bytes come off the disk, the file system has no control any more over what the user does with them. Something to...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-09-2007
  • JSON and XML

    Back at the PDC, I mentioned that Microsoft chose JSON over XML in Atlas, its AJAX framework. The debate has reared its head again recently, prompted largely by Tim Bray's post . Tim says that JSON is great for its single intended purpose, "to put structs on the wire." Dare, who used to work on the XML...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-05-2007
  • notch.es is hiring

    Notch.es is seeking ninjas . If you're a rock star, give Corey a call. I'm reposting the two job descriptions here. Don’t want to spend the next six months working under florescent lights on a corporate PC with no Internet access fixing someone else’s five year old code? Would you rather help build the...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-29-2006
  • Managing Exceptions in Framework Code

    One of the long-running debates here has been the use of exceptions for managing workflow. This was especially fierce while we were working on the Javascript framework, but it has died down a little in the strongly-typed .NET world. The two major questions are: ... when should should you return false...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-04-2006
  • Javascript Syntax

    I've worked with JavaScript extensively over the past few years. Actually, I would say I'm way too intimate for my own sanity, but that's another story. JavaScript isn't a true object-oriented language, because there is no real concept of inheritence and protection. Rather, every object...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-22-2003
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