Over on REST discuss, transplanted Ghanese IBMer Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah posted a fascinating economic analysis of REST. [Read more] for some choice excerpts from his Biblically-inspired parable(emphasis mine); I should ask him if he knows economist-theologian Sayo Ajiboye! ? There's a Reverend: HTTP ? There's a choir: the HUHXtable quartet (HTTP, URI, HTML, XML) ? There... Continue Reading →
Sam Ruby goes Jeff Foxworthy on REST vs. SOAP
SAM got a little wistful today about this ancient post where he hoped that the REST vs. SOAP debate would focus on substantive issues. [Read more] to see why he isn't giving up his day job... From Sam Ruby:Rest vs RPCÊ In reality, there aren't two sides.Ê There are at least four.Ê ? Everything is... Continue Reading →
Microformat T-Shirts
I'm not quite geeky enough to buy one -- but I am geeky enough to blog about them. :-)Microformats.org: we do it with class
REST defined, concisely
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 →
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