2009 Archive - page 2

Thursday, April 23, 2009

This post continues a four-part series that demonstrates how to take the simple os-environment Webmachine resource I wrote last week, and expand it to support modification, authorization, and conditional requests. Today I add basic authorization.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

This post begins a four-part series that demonstrates how to take the simple os-environment Webmachine resource I wrote last week, and expand it to support modification, authorization, and conditional requests. Modification via PUT is up first.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

A little extra emphasis, I think, is appropriate here: Webmachine chooses the proper response code for you. You define methods that describe the state of your resource (like whether or not it exists, what methods it allows, etc.), and Webmachine negotiates the muck of HTTP.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if your webserver could plot the path it took on that chart in handling a request?" Well, now it can - if you're using the latest Webmachine.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I now blame my lost hours of Javascript paranoia on one word: this.

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Steven Frank agrees that 3-choice voting (like/shrug/dislike) is plenty. It's great to see someone else suggest it. Maybe we'll see it pop up in a few more places.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Erlang's dynamic nature came in useful for me on BeerRiot last night. I've blogged about hot code loading before, but last night I dipped into the world of OTP applications and Mnesia.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

A year in the making, almost completely rewritten, I can't bear to hold it back any longer: today I release the new BeerRiot. Here's a synopsis of the changes for you:

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