Jeff Merlet

Architecture, Scalability, Web, Mobility, Synchronization 
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Joining a Startup? Here is a Set of Pointers

While looking for your next gig you may be tempted to work for a startup; here are some posts worth the read.

 

 

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Google Speed initiative

Let's make the web faster

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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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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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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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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Liked "Git for Designers tutorial"

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The IBM Exploratory Stream Processing Systems group is working on highly scalable stream processing platforms and applications

  • Parallel and high performance stream processing software platform capable of scaling over a range of hardware capability
  • Agile and automated reconfiguration in response to changing user objectives, available data, and the intrinsic variability of system resource availability
  • Incremental tasking in the face of rapidly changing data forms and types
  • Secure, privacy-compliant, and auditable execution environment
  • And take a look at the IBM press release announcing System S a "stream computing" software directly based on this research.

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    Liked "iPhone Dev Sessions: Create a Drum App"

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

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    Size addict? Look at some mobile screen size trends

    What is pretty clear is the trend towards widescreen and landscape orientation for high-end phones. QVGA and larger phones are getting automatic screen rotation. Landscape is often preferred for media consumption and handheld movie consumption has been "promising" for quite some time.

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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

    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:

    JAX-RS Implementations

    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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