The lab is a place for us to share our ideas, tools and the occasional experiment in Web technology.
Tools
ActionScript XML Binding
Working with XML in ActionScript has been made pretty simple by E4X. But many developers prefer to work with ActionScript objects rather than straight XML. Unfortunately, converting to and from XML is an often laborious, and certainly tedious, task.
Best Buy Remix API client (PHP)
Best Buy has opened up its retail catalog in hopes that innovative developers will help to expand the company's online presence. Best Buy Remix (currently in Beta), exposes information about Best Buy products and stores.
Interested? Apply for an API key, download the PHP client library and get started!
SqlWatcher: Ad-hoc database change monitoring
How many times have you needed to debug an application and wished, just wished, you had put better instrumentation in your code? It would have been brilliant if you had logged the key database fields before and after the update....
Experiments
TBUZZ
Following in the footsteps of our last lab experiment - Readability - we bring yet another bookmarklet. We wanted an easy way to twitter as we browse the Web. We also wanted to see what others were saying about the...
Readability
Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising revenue as possible, we're left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content...
JSON CSS: A More Powerful CSS Proof of Concept
JSON CSS is a proof of concept meant to demonstrate what could be accomplished with a more powerful syntax within CSS. The current implementation uses the power of jQuery and its plugin architecture to do the heavy lifting. The implementation...
Ideas
Extending RSS With RSS Traits
RSS is a great technology for reading headlines from blogs and news sources, but it doesn't need to stop there. An RSS 2.0 feed is really just a a list of stuff. If we build on that premise, then we...
Search Clouds
While looking for information about the Nintendo Wii he had just preordered, Joel Nagy found himself running across a growing number of search results that didn't have the facts he wanted. Instead, he got back articles talking about comparisons or...
How to Trust Email Again
As fradualent emails become more and more commonplace, and occurences of identity theft rise in frequency, Arc90's lead architect Joel Nagy steps back and thinks about a new way to make email a bit more secure....
