Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
There is a wealth of information (tons of it) in New York Times and the micro-blogging leader Twitter and it will be very useful and could be even remunerative to access data on them.
In this article, I look at two APIs, the Twitter API and the New York Times API and see how we can access data on them using the JavaScript libraries available on the Microsoft Edge Content Network also know as Microsoft Content Delivery Network (CDN). While jQuery is used to access API retrieved data on the intranet web server, the Microsoft AJAX client templates are used in displaying them.
Data in JSON objects are retrieved from New York Times and Twitter using jQuery and pushed into Microsoft AJAX templates.
About Jayaram Krishnaswamy Jayaram Krishnaswamy is a technical writer, mostly writing articles that are related to the web and databases. He is the author of SQL Server Integration Services published by Packt Publishers in the UK.
His book, 'Learn SQL Server Reporting Services 2008' was also published by Packt Publishers Inc, Birmingham.
Most recently his book, "Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development" (Dec 2010) was published by Packt Publishing Inc.
He writes articles on several topics to many sites.
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