Technology
With such a variety of work both professionally and what I do on my own, I'm exposed to a quite a bit of technology in the web development world. Admittedly no single person can know everything there is to know about everything in this industry, and I make no such claim either. I am, however, pretty satisfied with the amount of technology I've gotten to work with in the past ten years or so.
What I wanted to list here was the highlights of many of those technologies and where I've used them. It's one thing to list off a dozen acronyms and call it a day. It's also another thing to just copy/paste the definition of that technology and claim to know it, too. No, I want to show decent, real-world examples of what I've used these technologies for and hopefully give someone else out there a better understanding of what they mean or even inspire them to learn more about it.
Technology Examples
This list is going to be a constant work in progress, so it will start of small and grow larger as I have time to spend on it.
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds, or really simple syndication, have been around for longer than people realize, and have become a bigger hit with the explosion of the blogosphere and portal sites like iGoogle. Being able to create your own RSS feeds is a good thing to know, since they allow you to share updates and information from your website or other source that people can access via many different RSS feed readers.
AJAX
If there has to be a buzzword as part of Web 2.0 from the development toolkit perspective, it would have to be AJAX. One of my favorite parts of AJAX is that it is made up of entirely existing technologies, that is, JavaScript and XML. The way that these two have paired up and have been utilized on modern websites across the world has truly changed the Interent forever.
Google Maps
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Google Slideshow API
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Google Charts API
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Blogger Data API
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Flickr API
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geocoder.us API
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XML with XSL/T
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JSON
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MySQL Server
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Microsoft SQL Server
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.NET Reflection
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PHP
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