Understanding JSON

JSON is the communications backbone of the modern data-responsive web. It is actually quite simple – and yet I’ve been surprised how many devs are daunted by it. So lets demystify it and make it simple 🙂

First, lets get out of the way the two most common questions I get about JSON: What is

A Common Problem

A while ago my company experienced a weird problem where users were logging into a system we’d built for a client and yet - inexplicably - then told them they could not view their content because they were not logged in. The common theme: every affected user was using Internet Explorer, but that wasn’t the whole story.