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Twitpic API for getting pictures out

I've been using Twitpic either via TwitterFon on my iPhone or Tweetie from my desktop for Twitter, but one thing struck me last night: Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out. So here's my fix: http://twitpicapi.appspot.com/

JSONP request in Adobe Air

With the jQuery API browser my key aim was to build an app that worked both in the Adobe Air environment and without any changes work on the web. Typically, the environment is the same, with a few exceptions - one of which I ran in to yesterday. Making a JSONP call simply doesn't return back to [...]

What is JSONP?

jQuery 1.2 introduced JSONP support, but on initial read of the release notes, I wasn't completely sure what it was - so for anyone else that might want the Dr Seuss explanation. JSONP is script tag injection, passing the response from the server in to a user specified function

Broken AJAX? Nothing coming back?

I recently came across a funny bug where I was executing an AJAX method and the response was empty. I check the server side and I know that my particular query is returning a result, but thanks to Firebug I can see it's failing in the browser. So there was something definitely amiss.