Posts Tagged ‘json’

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 [...]

Tarpipe REST connector in 5 minutes

Tarpipe implemented a REST connector a short while ago. This is something that I and others have been wanting for a while now, so it’s great news. The announcement was quite short and didn’t have much detail. I like to see things visually, and I’m guessing others do too, so I decided to write a [...]

Twitter’s success

Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came together when I was chatting to Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), at a GeekUp event in [...]