Hat tip to Sam Ruby for pointing me to Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah's recap of the "REST Elevator Pitch" as four brief points: ? Identification Of Resources ? Manipulation Of Resources Through Representations ? Self-Descriptive Messages ? Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State[Read more] for a longer, metaphor-laden excerpt from Koranteng's Toli about the "HUHXtable (?)... Continue Reading →
Plan: ActiveData
Based on the encouraging responses to my original post on rails-core, I've put together a plan of action. [Read more] for the details, and stay tuned for the implementation. [Update: Hat tip to Rubert Barrow for suggesting ActiveSalesforce as a possible starting point]Just to summarize, the best plan appears to be:a) Create a plugin ("activedata")http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowTosPluginsb)... Continue Reading →
“ActiveRecord” for non-SQL Data in Rails
The heart of Ruby on Rails is arguably ActiveRecord (AR), which implements their version of Object-Relational Mapping. For greater generality (and locking across apps) it would be nice to have Rails on Mac OS X talk directly to CoreData. In particular, that would allow it to a) utilize the model file, and b) access data... Continue Reading →
Application for OSI Board Membership
Since I'm applying for public office, I may as well state my agenda and qualifications publicly for anyone who wants to comment (or hold me to them later, if I should attain such office). What is your prior experience with open source software??ÊÊ?http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/C1923057755/index.htmlÊ?* Long-term participant in OSI License DiscussÊ?* Active on license proliferation and membership... Continue Reading →
Ruby CoreData Tutorial
As part of my DARC strategy, I'm working on creating a Rails Adaptor for CoreData. The first step is simply getting CoreData to talk to Ruby. Fortunately, RubyCocoa 0.4.2 adds CoreData support, so this should be doable.I have created a file -- cdcli.rb -- which implements Apple's "Low-Level Core Data Tutorial" in Ruby, resulting in... Continue Reading →
I never metadata I didn’t like…
Apologies for the bad "Will Rogers meets Brent Spiner" pun. This is to introduce two terms I coined recently: paradata -- metadata inferred based on other metadata For example, knowing that an email from me has a connection to Elk Grove because you have an vCard (somewhere else) that tells you that Ernest Prabhakar lives... Continue Reading →
AHAH — They’ve Got It!
I am pleased to see that the AJAX-alternative meme "AHAH" -- which I co-developed with Kevin Marks and David Hansson -- has started getting significant airplay, highlighted in a recent microformats blog entry: So if you?ve been wondering what this AJAX stuff is about, take a look at AHAH, you might find it gets you... Continue Reading →
LGAP: Lightweight Grid Access Protocol
Traditional Grid Services have been built on the XML-RPC Model, and require complex tools and frameworks in order to be used at all. This tends to lead to highly structured efforts to force convergence on a single implementation, in order to share the pain -- er, minimize the total investment.There has to be a better... Continue Reading →
New Microrformats-REST wiki, mailing list
The interest in using microformats with REST has grown so strong, Tantek suggested a new microformats-rest mailing list. http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-rest/I've similarly created a new section of the wiki devoted to these RESTy issues:http://microformats.org/wiki/restI've tried to collect all the relevant rest work from elsewhere on the wiki, as well as external resources (like toydi's excellent preso). I... Continue Reading →
Packager, Package Thyself
Updated Oct 28: bug fixes, simpler implementation (compatible with 1.1)I've finally finished (I hope 🙂 a long-running project to use DarwinPorts itself to build the DarwinPorts installer. Yeah! The goal is to enable us to use all our existing tools to automate and collaborate on this process.I've uploaded an archive containing all the files: ?... Continue Reading →
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