Religiologue, Chercheur en technohumanités | Religiologist, Researcher in the Digital Humanities

In this first part of a series, we'll begin exploring some of the methods included with the Reflection API bundled with PHP 5. The interface allows developers to collect relevant information about a reflected class, including its name, its declared constants and properties, in a extremely straightforward way.

After mountains of controversy built up in the wake of the ‘pay up or else’ letters sent to thousands of alleged file-sharers, one would think other lawyers might be put off following the same track, but not so. Tilly Bailey & Irvine are the new kids on the block and have just been labeled by a Lord as an “embarrassment to the rest of the creative rights industry.”

Whether it’s avoiding bars frequented by students or politely declining the occasional social invitation, professors often make an extra effort to establish boundaries with their pupils. But social networking sites, which are often more public than they may appear, are lifting the veil on the private lives of professors in ways they may not have expected.

[T]he great majority of non-Twitter users (62%) didn’t think Twitter would be helpful for their business or career.

Explore the concepts, design, and implementation details pertaining to interacting with social media sites using various APIs and XML-based data formats such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Atom, Facebook Markup Language (FBML), OpenSocial Markup Language (OSML), SOAP, and plain old XML (POX).

The popular jQuery JavaScript library is best known for its use working with HTML, but you can also use it to process XML, if you're careful and aware of the pitfalls. This article shows how to use jQuery to process the Atom Web feed format.

his article introduces the Google Book Search Data API, demonstrating how you can use it to search for books by keyword, author, and title; retrieve book thumbnails and previews; and add reviews and labels to user libraries.