These text-file formats can all be used to store structured data for embedded and Web applications—but there are differences among them. What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be ...

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I've come a long way over the years in terms of software development. There was a time when all I needed was an HTML form on the client-side and a Servlet's getRequestParameter() method on the server ...

I don't use Visual Studio's Edit menu enough, obviously: For some time there's been a Paste Special option on that menu that I didn't know about. It has up to two choices depending on what kind of ...

If you are not familiar with JSON, it stands for Java Script Object Notation and is an open standard format that uses human readable text for data interchanges. Despite its name, it is separate to ...

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...

Business Object Deserialization and Efficiency Improvement The core of this patent lies in the "Business Object Deserialization Index Alignment Method." In simple terms, deserialization is the process ...

I know. I’m playing with fire today. I am going to tell you why I don’t like XML and all the reasons it’s not a good way of transporting data on the factory floor. XML has a weight problem, but then ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even ...