Jeff Merlet

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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!

Tagged Cloud Design Developer Development Key-Value Store Programming Scalability Twitter architecture hacking list

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An Experiment in BlackBerry Development: Lessons Learned Writing PodTrapper

This article attempts to relay my experiences and lessons learned in the making of PodTrapper, my first mobile application for BlackBerry. It will cover

via versatilemonkey.com

Tagged App Store Application BlackBerry Developer Development Marketing Mobile iphone

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Must read and apply: "TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors"

Nothing really new here, but still a good reminder for architects and development teams. And nice to see this being pushed to CS curriculums.

Via http://www.sans.org/top25errors/#s4

Tagged Developer Development Programming Security Software Tutorial architecture

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Liked "iPhone Dev Sessions: Create a Drum App"

via theappleblog.com

And do not forget to also checkout the free iPhone development course offered by Stanford.

Tagged App Developer Mobile Software Training Tutorial iphone

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Liked "My first experience as an offshore developer"

via blog.radioactiveyak.com

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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