…but not limited to, relational databases, file systems, content management systems and traditional Web sites.
OData is consistent with the way the Web works - it makes a deep commitment to URIs for resource identification and commits to an HTTP-based, uniform interface for interacting with those resources (just like the Web). This commitment to core Web principles allows OData to enable a new level of data integration and interoperability across a broad range of clients, servers, …
- The "Tech. Arch.": Implementing Ruby Camping REST Services With RESTstop
- ronin coder: Never do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Inside Ruby on Rails: Serializing Ruby objects with JSON
- format internet:: IE cache for Ajax requests
- Luigi Montanez: Drafting Guidelines for Government Data Catalogs
- Bamboo Blog: A JSON event-based convention for WebSockets
…likely rebrand their closed AppleTV device as iTV, with full support for iOS and the Web. Kevin Rose recently blogged about how disruptive the iTV will be .
User interface is a point of contrast when considering the three kinds of computers. The computer on your desk uses a keyboard and mouse (or trackpad), something unlikely to change. As a workstation, nothing beats the one-hundred physical buttons on the keyboard. The computer in your hand uses touch, specifically multitouch …
- Derek Powazek: links for 2010-05-25
- Alex Young: Making Thinking Sphinx Fast in Development Mode
- Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Michael Bleigh
- Zen and the Art of Programming: Web or iPhone OS applications to make money?
- Giles Bowkett: Scott Adams Is Wrong About Content
- Talk Like A Duck: Ubuntu TimeMachine server for Snow Leopard
Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App - Great "cheat sheet" on some metrics to track (and how to track them) for your saas app
Home - YoruFukurou - Awesome twitter client for mac, if it supported multiple accounts I'd use it all the time. If you only have one twitter, this might be for you.
git cheatsheet and class notes - notes from a talk Nate did + a cheatsheet he created for git as well.
Desirable Properties…
- How Software is Built: Interview with Louis Landry - Joomla Development Lead
- Blue Box Group: News: September Came to A Great Close
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Comment spam.
- SKORKS: How To Fix The WP-Syntax Special Character Escaping Issue
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Blog migration from Spaces to Blogger
- Jake Scruggs: Ruby Kaigi 2010 Day 1
…other media content providers, libraries and museums are increasingly moving their content onto the Web. While the move itself is no easy process (with digitization, web development, and training costs), being able to successfully deliver content to a wide audience is an ongoing concern, particularly for large libraries.
Much of the concern is financial, as most libraries do not have the internal budget or outside investors that for-profit businesses enjoy. Even large university libraries …
- Topics: Web.
- World Wide Webber: A Manifesto from the Snake Oil Association (SOA)
- ZURBlog: ZURBsoapbox: Principal Designer Behind Firefox Joins Us Feb 26th
- Luigi Montanez: Essential Force.com Resources
- Bamboo Blog: Brain Dump of Real Time Web(RTW) and WebSocket
- Giles Bowkett: Unplanned Career Change?
- How Software is Built: Interview with Ezra Zygmuntowicz - Engine Yard
…from "I'm on the Web all the time" to "I'm making money on the Web." There are Rubyists embracing Internet marketing and information products - Peepcode, Pragmatic Screencasts, Envycasts, Amy Hoy, Ben Orenstein, 37Signals' first book, Marc-André Cournoyer - but by and large, the VC culture still reigns supreme.
The VC culture annoyed the hell out of me a few years ago, back when I still thought it at least made sense; but today, with …
- Opscode Blog: Tuesday Crunchie Nominations for Chefs
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: What My User Survey Taught Me
- How Software is Built: Interview with Chad Lucien and Parag Sheth - Hillcrest Labs
- Idle Process: The Ever Changing Face of the Internet
- Lessons Learned: Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich
- opensoul: Benkler on Net Neutrality, Competition, and the Future of the Internet | EconTalk
…of much more substantial set that have been used to teach other academics and researchers about the Web, with a distinctly distributed systems flavour.
Here's the good news: if you're an academic who teaches distributed computing and you want to use the full set of slides that we have for your course then you can have the whole set, for free . All we ask in return is that you consider using REST in Practice as one of your recommended texts for your course.
What's more, …
- JJinuxLand: MySQL: Disk Usage Can Never Shrink When Using InnoDB
- AdaRuby: Advanced Rails: Go to the next level with Rails
- Stake Ventures Inc.: OpenTransact a tiny payment standard
- Litany Against Fear: Switching to Rails
- RubyLearning Blog: Rubyists.EU: Stairway to the European Ruby Community Integration
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails demo': REST Describe & Compile, or WADL2Anything
…data catalog lives on the Web, so it makes sense that it embrace the architecture of the Web. A simple Web site with a few pages is good for citizen use, but doesn't lend itself to being interoperable. As such, we strongly recommend following the Resource Oriented Architecture ( ROA) guidelines. When applied to the concept of a government data catalog, ROA means:
Resources that represent the data sources, agencies, and jurisdictions (if there are more than one) should …
- Mental Paging Space: Call Center Voice Recording
- Old dog, new tricks: High performance websites
- Litany Against Fear: Switching to Rails
- A Fresh Cup: My Tools of the Trade - 2009
- Tammer Saleh: Using Tumblr gem with custom domains
- AlternateIdea - Home: Programming Politics
…for Android ( SL4A) to build and deploy a phone-hosted "spy camera" Web service.
SL4A is a system that allows you to run "scripting language" scripts and interactive interpreters on the Android platform. It currently supports JRuby, Python, Perl, Lua, JavaScript, BeanShell, and Tcl. Mike demonstrates how to set up a Sinatra project to use SL4A to run on an Android phone using JRuby. Upon receiving a request, Mike's app takes …
- ronin coder: Mobile Roundup
- How Software is Built: Interview with Edd Dumbill - OSCON Co-Chair
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Android
- Lance: The Android Needs a Better E-Mail client
- Alex Young: Smartphone Security Flaws / Nexus One Review
- SapphireSteel Software: Amethyst in Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine
The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 8 - Web Marketing
And now it's time for a little shameless self-promotion, if you didn't check it out already - please head over to our most recent Blog Carnival for the a run down on some of the biggest news in Web Marketing for the month of August.
Well that's all we have for you this week. Keep checking our Twitter and Facebook feeds for more daily news and updates!
Have a great weekend!
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: The Most Radical A/B Test I've Ever Done
- Giles Bowkett: Bundler Schmundler
- Software by Rob: Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more...
- AlternateIdea - Home: Programming Politics
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Groovy, Scala and Clojure - A Comparison
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: Coworking Space in Champaign Urbana (Illinois)
This coming Friday you will have an opportunity to meet and learn from Alex Faaborg the principal designer behind Firefox! We'll have a catered lunch and some hang out time with the man after which we'll jump into the discussion. How cool is that? What more can you ask for?
Photo courtesy of Mozilla
Every day Firefox is used by 120 million people as their window into the Web. The browser has a 25% market share, is the second most popular browser worldwide …
- Medium eXposure: My Tools of the Trade
- Be Genius: New Design
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Text truncating (line wrap) with CSS
- Biodegradable Geek: What Firefox's Memory Leak Feature Taught Me About Life
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #638
- Open Sourcery: Getting "copy friendly" with jQuery