Monthly Archives: October 2006

Writing a REST Webservice: part 2 “REST Requirements”

Today’s REST topic concerns the environment in which you can serve a REST web service. If you noticed from yesterday’s article our table “A Blog Broken Down” explaining our representations showed several URIs. There are few ways to store your … Continue reading

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Writing a REST Webservice: part 1 “What is REST?”

I’ve been working a lot recently with Yahoo’s great Javascript toolkit, YUI and have used it to talk to some web services I’ve created for various apps done in the REST style. REST is an architectural style that encourages the … Continue reading

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Scorsese does it again!

The Departed IMDB Year: 2006 Writer: William Monahan Director: Martin Scorsese Length: 152 minutes Category: Drama Media: Film Rating from MPAA: R Rating: 5 out of 5 Last weekend I saw The Departed, the latest release from director Martin Scorsese. … Continue reading

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Sweet!

iStockPhoto now sells stock video! If I liked shooting footage at all I would do this all the time and sell stuff here (ditto goes for photos). I like the way they do things over at iStockPhoto, so if you … Continue reading

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Accessibility Unfriendly? Or Usability Unfriendly?

Some background information: I’ve been listening to the podnetcast Security Now! for a few weeks. One thing I started doing as a result of listening to Security Now! was to start surfing with Javascript turned off by default (my preferred … Continue reading

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I demand an igloo!

Build me an igloo out of these please. Take your time. I’ll be patient.

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Social Security Security

Today I spent some time at a bank securing a personal loan to consolidate some credit card debt. I am still consistently disappointed to see that my Social Security Number is on every form in use at this bank (no, … Continue reading

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