This post was previously submitted about 14 months ago, but had got only 4 upvotes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2334418
I found it very interesting and useful and thought re-submitting it (with the standard '?hn=2' at the end) would be OK.
I found it very interesting and useful and thought re-submitting it (with the standard '?hn=2' at the end) would be OK.
As far as using something like JSON (in a general key/value sense) in a TCP stream, to disk, etc., I have some bias towards using something a friend made called "KeyedBits" up on Github.