Json Data Visualizer (for Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter) using JQuery, JavaScript, Asp.net MVC 2.0

I have been working for the past few weeks on the code project article

Json Data Visualizer (for Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter) using JQuery, JavaScript, Asp.net MVC 2.0

this was fun and I had to use following references

1. “prettyPrint” for JavaScript by James Podesly for table data visualization
2. Javascript unpacker and beautifier by Einar Lielmanis for Beautify format.
3. Show Object Properties by Matt Holthe for understanding recursive scanning of Javascript objects.
4. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search for Twitter search.
5. http://developer.yahoo.com/common/json.html#overview about Yahoo Json
6. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/local/V3/localSearch.html for yahoo search
7. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251056.aspx about bing
8. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/ for google.

Rest, Web services, Javascript, JQuery

Read interesting articles on REST and web services.

1. A Brief Introduction to REST by Stefan Tilkov Very informative article. I enjoyed not only the technical content but also the prose. He talks in this about Roy Fielding (given in links below) inventor of REST.
2. Roy T. Fielding inventor of REST.
3. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures Html version of Roy’s Thesis on REST.
4. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures PDF version of Roy’s Thesis on REST.

Good tutorials and articles on Javascript, REST and JQuery

1. Tutorials:Live Examples of jQuery
2. JQuery Tutorials
3. Tutorials:jQuery For Designers
4. W3 Schools Beginner Tutorials on Javascript, JQuery
5. JSON for the masses
6. Partial Rendering with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery
7. Make Yahoo! Web Service REST Calls With C#

Yahoo services, Json, JQuery and Javascript Object browser

Looking at Yahoo web services and working  with Javascript, MVC and JQuery.

Yahoo is making several APIs available

1. Yahoo Developer Network
2. Yahoo APIs and Web Services

Yahoo can provide data back as XML or Json. Interesting links for using Yahoo services.

1. Interesting Link by Matt Holthe on a Javascript Object Browser. Helped me to debug the Yahoo Json data.
   Show Object Properties
2. How to use  returned XML from Yahoo Services with Silverlight
   Silverlight: Using Returned XML
3. Interesting article on parsing Json safely
   Safely parsing JSON in JavaScript
4. Excellent Json validator. Not only validates, nicely formats the stream which comes from Yahoo (Json data) so that you can copy the input to a word document to understand the data structure.
   JSONLint The JSON Validator
5. Introduction to Json and Javascript JSON in JavaScript
6. JSON Primer