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JSON explained!




There was a lot of discussion of JSON at the recent Alpha Anywhere Developer conference.




 




To help people understand more about JSON and its role in Mobile and Web apps, Selwyn has put this video series together.




 




Please let us know at marketing@alphasoftware.com if this tutorial (below is helpful) and please let us know what other tutorials might be useful.




 





 











UX Component Intro to JSON JSON is ubiquitous in Web application development. Having a good understanding of JSON is very helpful in building web applications. In this series of videos we introduce you to various ways in which you can work with JSON on the server side (using Xbasic) and on the client-side (using Javascript).

We show how JSON is the ideal way for sending complex data from the client to the server, or from the server to the client (in an AJAX callback).

Using Xbasic on the server-side to work with JSON
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Using Javascript on the client-side to work with JSON
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Using JSON to send complex data to the server from the client
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Using JSON to send complex data from the server to the client
Watch Video - Part 1
Watch Video - Part 2
Watch Video - Part 3

Advanced example - sending complex data from the server and formatting the data for presentation on the client side using a template
Watch Video - Part 1
Watch Video - Part 2
Watch Video - Part 3
Watch Video - Part 4


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Date Added: 2014-10-15

 
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Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.


The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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