Jeff Merlet - Filed under 'Design'

November 9, 2009

My Twitter Hacking list

Taking advantage of the new Twitter List feature, I just created a hacking list focusing on relevant programmer news, from architecture to coding, including high scalability systems and a dose of cloud computing. I tried to avoid including "people" with too much noise or tech news style. For such lists, I would recommend scobleizer lists: you can not find more exhaustive lists than his!.

This list is going to evolve by adding or removing "people" based on noise level and technical relevancy. Any feedback or suggestions is welcome!

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Filed under // architecture Cloud Design Developer Development hacking Key-Value Store list Programming Scalability Twitter

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June 26, 2009

Liked "Twitter, an Evolving Architecture"

via infoq.com

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Filed under // architecture Cache Deployment Design memcached Scalability Twitter

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June 24, 2009

Google Speed initiative

Let's make the web faster

via code.google.com

Great initiative with already a good set of tutorials and compilation of tools, and potentially an active community.

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Filed under // Design Development Performance Programming Scalability Software Web Web Design

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June 1, 2009

Liked "22 Extremely Well Written Icon Design Tutorials | Web Design Ledger"

In this post there are 22 well written tutorials that will teach you techniques for designing your own icons using various tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop.

via webdesignledger.com

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Filed under // Design Graphic Icon Resources Technique Tutorial Web Design

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May 20, 2009

Liked "A Low Impact Woodland Home"

via simondale.net

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Filed under // architecture Design House Permaculture Straw Wood

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May 6, 2009

Liked "12 Standard Screen Patterns"

via designingwebinterfaces.com

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Filed under // Design Pattern Screen UI UX Web Design

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May 5, 2009

Liked yUML.me the simple UML drawing online service

via http://yuml.me/

Update 1: if you are looking for WYSIWYG drawing online service, then you can take a look at Gliffy or Lovely Charts.

Update 2: and if needed, here is a good quick introduction to UML for programmers.

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Filed under // Design Diagram Drawing Modeling Online Service Simple UML Use Case WYSIWYG

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May 5, 2009

Liked "Paper Prototyping"

As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, pens, scissors, and your imagination.

via alistapart.com

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Filed under // Design Interface Prototype Simple UI User Experience UX

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April 27, 2009

Liked "8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs"

via aisleone.net

Update 1: And look at the interview of David Berlow, co-founder of the Font Bureau, about real fonts on the web.

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Filed under // Design Typography Web Web Design

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April 24, 2009

REST Web services resources for Java developers

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for creating, maintaining, retrieving, and deleting resources. REST's information-driven, resource-oriented approach to building Web services can both satisfy your software's users and make your life as a developer easier.

via javaworld.com

REST Introduction

- The father of REST, Roy Fielding, dissertation on "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architecture"

- Why REST?

- For more resources see REST Wiki, including the REST in plain English article.

Building REST Services

- RESTful Service

- Building Web services the REST way

- Build a RESTful Web service

REST related Design Issues

- Versioning REST services

- Common REST mistakes

- PUT or POST: the REST of the story, or see also the interesting interview with Elliotte Rusty Harold

- Asynchronous REST or Slow REST:

- Instead of returning a custom object we could use the Content-Location header for the in-progress status URI of the requested operation. This URI could also use headers to provide information regarding the in-progress operation:

- Status-Code: "202 in progress" or "204 No Content" when completed or any error code

- ETag: for the operation progress status. Could be strong and still give a notion of progress

REST for Java Developers (via javaworld.com)

- Part 1 - it's about the information, stupid

- Part 2 - Restlet for the weary

- Part 3 - NetKernel

- Part 4 - The future is RESTful

REST Libraries

- Notes:

- All of them are supporting JAX-RS, aka JSR-311, the Java API for RESTful Web Services

- And here is good presentation of JAX-RS

- Restlet project