RESTful reporting
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is a method for building web services. It is an alternate to things like SOAP and XML-RPC. REST is put forward as a cleaner method of doing web services, and so...
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It may not take great powers of intuition to put my last two technical posts together and figure out that I’m making a REST interface to a FoxPro database. (Plans only include GET access at this...
View ArticleUsing SQUID to do TDD against request-limited web APIs
TL;DR: Go grab the conf file and play around with it. I had an idea to take advantage of the Meetup API. According to the documentation they have all the data I need (no page scraping – yeah) One catch...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Pinboard Anyway
A week or so ago, there was a big hubbub when it leaked out that Yahoo was planning to ‘sunset’ Delicious, among other properties. Panic ensued as people started posting evacuation instructions and...
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