about 3 years ago - Comments Off
An article I wrote has just been published over at InfoQ. It’s called Versatile RESTful APIs Beyond XML and shows how easy it can be to extend Rails’ RESTful behaviour to input and output resources not only as XML but also as JSON and Microformatted HTML. The article builds on some posts on this blog, More >
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acts_as_geocodable (blog entry, repository) is the newest kid on the rails geo plugin block. It actually consists of two parts, a gem called graticule which handles the actual geocoding, interacting with external services, etc, and the plugin which offers extensions to your models. I like that separation. Having the generalised code in a gem and More >
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I’ve refrained from blogging much about Yahoo! Pipes, mainly because everyone else seemed to be. It’s definitely an interesting development, and shows how far we’ve come with open data, but also how far we still are from that really making an obvious impact for non-geeks. Two of the more interesting pieces on the use of More >
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Mark Nottingham has a good post running through a few topics on which people get needlessly caught when designing RESTful applications. If you’re new to working on RESTful application design (as many rails developers are) it’s worth checking out to save yourself needless anguish. Thankfully for Rails developers at least some of the issues he More >
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It seems DHH is hopping on the OpenID bandwagon, and that the next 37signals app will allow openid-based authentication. He’s talking about releasing his code as a plugin, so maybe I won’t need to find the time. For those following the OpenID buzz, Simon Willison’s cool things you can build with OpenID is well worth More >
about 3 years ago - Comments Off
Bandwagon is a soon-to-be-launched service to help people back up their itunes libraries. It provides online services (and it looks like tools) to manage and store the backups. They’re also offering free accounts to bloggers linking to their site, and I’d really like to try the service, so here’s my post. I’m a little sceptical More >
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One feature of recent releases of Rails I hadn’t spotted before is the ability to define your own parameter parsing based on content type. I’m working on an application that will employ a RESTful API and that I hope will take its input in either standard http parameters, microformatted HTML, XML or JSON. I don’t More >
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Following on from my previous entry about scraping bus route data from The Rapid’s website, and to begin to demonstrate the possibilities it opens up, I’ve set up a simple web service to provide route and stop data. It’s based on the new REST style from Edge Rails, and routes are scoped by city to More >
about 4 years ago - 3 comments
It’s always an interesting challenge to take a system you are familiar with and try to use it in an entirely new way or context. That’s what I’ve been getting with PHP of late. As more and more of my web development work moves to Rails, I’ve had the chance to work on PHP embedded More >
about 4 years ago - Comments Off
My particular focus this year as a member of the Greenbelt web team is on finding ways to better integrate festival related content with the wider web, and then working out how to use the festival’s website as a hub for all of that information. It started out with the collage that we built using More >
about 5 years ago
Hmmm. I tried tagging an entry on my blog. A day later – still no sign of it on Technorati. I wonder what I’m doing wrong???
about 5 years ago
Hi Peter,
As well as putting the link you need to make sure there’s the attribute rel=”tag” in the link. ie.
<a href=”http://www.technorati.com/tag/greenbelt2005″ rel=”tag”>greenbelt2005</a>
Hope that works for you.