Jeff Merlet - Filed under 'Development'

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 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 23, 2009

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

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Filed under // App Store Application BlackBerry Developer Development iphone Marketing Mobile

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June 3, 2009

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

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Filed under // architecture Developer Development Programming Security Software Tutorial

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June 2, 2009

Check out this handy OAuth explorer

Written by Morten Fangel, and available at sevengoslings.net.

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Filed under // Authentication Authorization Development OAuth Programming Security Software Tool

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June 1, 2009

Liked "43 iPhone Development Resources"

Programming for the iPhone is still pretty new. It might be a bit tougher to find iPhone developer resources but we found a bunch that will get you through building any iPhone app you might be starting on. Check out our list of our favorite developer books, blogs, podcasts, screencasts, open-source libraries, communities, forums, conferences, training, and more!

via theappleblog.com

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Filed under // Book Development iphone Library Open Source Programming Resources Training

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May 21, 2009

Liked this simple but complete tutorial on making a Twitter-like service using a key-value DB

This is a good tutorial for people just learning on how to use a key-value store instead of a usual relational database. And this tutorial is great as demonstrating a fully working Web 2.0 service, including security. It is based on the new key-value store http://code.google.com/p/redis/ a non-volatile memcached-like store written in ANSI-C for Posix systems.

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Filed under // Database Development Distributed Key-Value Key-Value Store Persistence Programming Store Tutorial Twitter

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May 18, 2009

RESTY: a simple curl tool for testing RESTful services

The project is hosted at github

Update 1: See also one of my post listing some REST resources, including other tools like rest-client and HTTP4E.

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Filed under // curl Development REST Simple Software Tool Web Services

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May 18, 2009

Liked "Git for Designers tutorial"

via hoth.entp.com

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Filed under // Development Git Repository Software Source Source Control Tool Version Control

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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

This is my favorite library, and I like the fact that it is running on GAE/J and supporting GWT

- RESTEasy from JBoss.org

- Jersey part of Sun's GlassFish project

- CXF from Apache.org

- REST Libraries usage trend:

Via GoogleVolume.com

Tools

- RESTY is a simple cURL-based command line tool

- rest-client is a Java-based GUI and command line tool

- HTTP4E is an Eclipse HTTP client

Update 1: Added a libraries and tools sections.

Update 2: Added a section on design issues related to building REST services

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