Monthly Archives: March 2008

AJAST – Cross-domain REST calls using JSON injection

The typical (and original AJAX) approach to calling web services asynchronously from a browser uses the XMLHTTPRequest object to request data asynchronously. However, as most of you probably already know, requests made using this object are restricted to the same … Continue reading

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Object-Relational Mappings Considered Harmful

Creating an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) has become the de facto way of handling persistence in the object-oriented programming paradigm. Almost all systems require some form of persistent state, and relational databases have become the de facto place to put that … Continue reading

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