Being a web application developer in higher education brings with it numerous challenges, not the least of which is the sheer diversity of projects. Case in point: In January 2012 the Athletic Department here at the University of Wisconsin contacted my group...
Once we gather the data, we’d like to save it to a format that will be consistent across Windows 8 C# and Windows 8 Javascript, as well as Windows 8 Phone. For now, we’ve settled on JSON as a common persistence and wire-format. While JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, there are good libraries for converting .NET objects to JSON and back.