Posts Tagged ‘conneg’

Coffeeshop screencast: HTTP conneg, resource representations and JSON

After yesterday’s screencast showing the use of coffeeshop from the command line, here’s one that expands upon the direction I’m taking the implementation, following the REST/HTTP philosophy. It shows, I hope, that embracing REST-orientated HTTP features, such as content negotiation (”conneg”), and the concepts of resources and representations, gives you a fantastically flexible and straightforward [...]

‘Conneg’ and the duality of weblogs.

Q: When is a blog not a blog?
A: When it’s an RSS feed.
I’ve pondered the relationship between weblog and RSS before, and in an Old Speckled Hen-induced philosophical state of mind, have decided for experimental purposes that for all URI intents and purposes they are one and the same.
With that in mind, my thoughts turned [...]