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Roll on Rest On Ruby On Rails
It's good to hear Rails 1.2 is all about embracing REST. Working with Ajax has helped me really appreciate the benefits of REST, and it all fits in with the Rails mindset quite nicely. Right now, we...
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Ajax as a Remedy for the Cacheability-Personalization Dilemma
A pattern for your consideration, about using Ajax to help pages be RESTful. Problem How to personalize content and make pages cacheable and bookmarkable at the same time? Forces We want pages to have...
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Ruby is Rails is … REST
Will the peripheral IT community come to view REST and Rails as equivalent? It might sound ridiculous, but consider: Unix==Linux, Wiki==Wikipedia, Ajax=Web 2.0, blogging==RSS, podcast==spoken MP3. Last...
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Did you hear the one about enterprise reuse?
Confirming that enterprise reuse can be a bit of a joke at times, Jason Gorman shares this fable on enterprise reuse (via another inspired Jason). Short summary: Two ladies could save 8 cents by...
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A URL Parameter Engine (and Rambling about PHP Globals)
I've recently been playing around with PHP again, because (a) it's vastly simpler to deploy personal projects in PHP than any other platform (aside from pure client-side Ajax of course!) (b) it's so...
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When Resource IDs are URLs
Being a web app about websites and other resources, Scrumptious has a resource which is basically a URL, called "Pages". A Scrumptious resource modelling google.com/about looks like:...
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Scrumptious Update: Open ID Support, UI Enhancements
I've released a new version of Scrumptious. Main change is it now supports Open ID. You can click a "login" link to comment by Open ID. It's optional by default, though a Scrumptious site operator...
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REST is good, but REST-* is …
The above image is inspired by Roy's Rightful REST Rant, kanyelicious and kanyegate, uses @psd's Roy Has a Posse, and is me getting up to speed with Photoshop (not that it shows) after using certain...
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The Weirdness of Ajax Redirects: Some Workarounds
I've been dealing with the situation when your server redirects after a DELETE. Which is actually a fairly common use case. User deletes a blog post, redirect them to the index of all posts. The...
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What Everyone Should Know About REST: Talk at Web Directions Code
Here are the slides: Slides: What Everyone Should Know About REST Thanks UX Mastery for the sketchnotes, they are awesome! (Seriously, I would be much more swayed to speak at any conference with...
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