In case you’re still thinking REST is only about HTTP, the following article InfoQ: How to GET a Cup of Coffee. is a must-read. Through a real life workflow example, the authors illustrate what “Hypermedia as the engine of application state” really means.
It’s dated October 2nd, so forgive me if you have already read it, I’m catching up on my to-read backlog.
I’m in the middle of the Programming Erlang book (or more exactly end of first third;) and it happens that Tom Preston-Werner gave an interview to InfoQ a couple of weeks ago. Tom Preston-Werner is a founder of Github among other things and seems to be a big fan of Ruby and Erlang. Being completely new to the Erlang world, his interview comes just in time with a couple of pointers to Erlang projects to look at:
I was also amazed to hear that the Github completely bypasses the git executable to access git objects. Actually the Github guys have written a Ruby client to do that in a more efficient manner performance wise.
we have replaced a lot of the shell out calls in Ruby you do the shell out, we replaced most of those, possibly all of them by now with just pure Ruby, we go directly to the file system. We read the object data from the Git repository, we read that directly. And by doing that we have been able to get a multiplier of two speed up on the web pages throughout the site. Double the speed of the page load and that’s been awesome. So we are using that when you install Git.
InfoQ: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang.
This statement is more than a stretch, but well it’s less harmful than saying Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
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It’s no news, but still worth to mention: Google is against Proposition 8. I haven’t heard of other companies taking official position on the matter. Google is different, no doubt.
We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 — we should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
Official Google Blog: Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign.
via Dion Almaer
Tim Bray gave a talk at the Future Of Web App. He was supposed to talk about “What to be frightened of in building a web application” but due to the market downturn he did a last-minute change and focused on what developpers/entrepeurs should do in tough times.
Interesting 35-mn session. Among other things he urged people to give up Waterfall cycle, people won’t buy a software that has yet to be implemented. To him Telecom market could be a good place to start, people will always use their phone even in a bear market, etc.
He also outlined the same old things: contribute to the internet (blog, twit, open source), don’t be a one-tech guy, diversify your knowledge, build a network, etc.
Right on, as usual!
