Google Unveils XML Alternative
The search giant didn't spit out any insults, and it didn't demand that everyone follow in its footsteps, either. Still, it may be of interest to XML fans that, when faced with the problem of encoding a lot of data, Google will now be using an XML alternative called Protocol Buffers.

Date: 2008-07-16

WordPress has Added XML Sitemaps
WordPress.com has added XML sitemaps so I thought I would take a glance at their implementation. My immediate though was to take a look at Lorelle's sitemap.xml

Date: 2008-06-17

Trusting Hacking crossdomain.xml Files
What other sites do flash and other web 2.0 components trust, by Google search or Google hacking the crossdomain xml file, you can find out some very interesting things about what sites are trusted by another site, and where API's or other trusted widgets can come from, including advertising.

Date: 2008-05-22

XmlException: Data At The Root Level Is Invalid
A few days ago I needed to write some functionality to fetch an XML document from a URL and load it into an XmlDocument.

Date: 2008-04-18

XML Sitemap Ping Tool
All the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live, and Ask) use the XML Sitemaps protocol for getting URLs from websites.

Date: 2008-03-25

XML-RPC ping endpoint in C# and ASP.NET
All blog platforms send out pings using the XML-RPC protocol whenever a new post is created or an old one is updated. It is very simple to send out XML-RPC pings using C#, because it is just a normal HTTP request with some XML in the request body.

Date: 2008-03-04

A New Way to Organize Your Feeds
When you come across something interesting on the web, but don't have time to read it at that moment, what do you do? The old way is to add the web page to your browser's bookmarks or favourites so you can retrieve it when you do have time.

Date: 2008-02-07

Google Sitemaps and Competitive Intelligence
I'm a big fan of the Google Webmaster Central Program and using sitemaps. I agree that you should build your website so that it is crawlable and not rely on sitemaps to compensate for poor site architecture, but hands down there is no better tool when you are migrating or cleaning up after a site migration than webmaster central.

Date: 2008-01-04