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REST, with proper use of hypermedia, can be very appropriate for constrained devices. In my last post, I talked about how HTTP has a lot of cruft that could be removed if one were to design a HTTP-lite...
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Should a constrained device be a RESTful server or a client? I had been assuming server, and I think I can justify this, although I'm not saying that choosing to put the low-power device in the client...
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Hang on folks, I'm taking this blog on a sharp shift of topic.I decided a long time ago to knit a traditional fair isle sweater for a friend who's a sharp, if dated, dresser. I'm finally getting around...
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I swatched for the Prince of Wales fair isle sweater recreation project (last post) before I even received the yarn I ordered. I used two skeins of Elemental Affects. I also decided to try mixing...
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I downloaded and played Civ V last night. I watched through the high-quality animated movie intro, and noticed how carefully the old man, the hut, and the young man were culturally mixed. Their skin...
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I've noticed an interesting link between art and software, specifically a parallel to the Scrum process and the existence of Certified Scrum Masters: there are ZenTangles with a specific process for...
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Apple, I am incredibly frustrated.I used to have an iPhoto plugin that published photos to Flickr. When I last updated iPhoto, I was initially happy to see that iPhoto seemed to have the same...
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Jodi Green posted a link to TVO Archives. That is, the archives of public television in Ontario -- a personal wayback machine. I found "The Polka-dot Door", one episode, but more than enough to remind...
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A few weeks ago, I took a class with Kathy Zimmerman at Stitches West. Kathy designs beautiful sweaters, and cabling is definitely her signature design element. She's also the author (star?) of an...
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I learned about Medium Maximization behavior the other day and thought about how Scrum works. It's an interesting lens.When people engage in medium maximization, they maximize a proxy for a real goal,...
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I was wondering if the term "guys" is becoming more gender-neutral over time. Have you ever referred to a group including some women as "guys"? I've used the term to refer to groups made up entirely of...
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Resourceful != RESTfulResourceful routing in Rails is certainly useful. As is customary in Rails, you get a lot of stuff achieved with a very small amount of declarations. And at first glance it...
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This week I was asked to review draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10, The Websocket Protocol, as it gets closer to being an IETFRFC. After I sent my review, I was prompted to look back and reminded...
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I've been setting up Jenkins to run Rails project unit and functional tests as builds. This has been difficult, and 90% of the problems have been in getting different versions of various gems...
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Many modern Web services or Web APIs use REST style with JSON request and response bodies. The first problem doing this with Rails is that Rails isn't entirely conducive to doing REST, which I already...
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This is another post outlining "How I spent several days frustratingly getting something to work" so that "you don't have to". I think the theory behind these kinds of posts is the "you don't have to"...
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My third post on doing RESTish JSON APIs in Rails is about testing the API. I'm assuming the network API should remain stable, not have fields added or removed without consideration (and ideally,...
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The Story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and R2-D2As requested by a four-and-a-half-year-old: "Yeah, tell me that one. Snow White. And put R2-D2 in it. And R2-D2 has to use his cannon."Once upon...
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Sarasa hat pattern
I put a bunch of work into a chart to knit myself a hat, so I decided to follow through and make it a pattern.I was inspired by this fabric in a book of mine: I knit it up and blocked it: Added...
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I'm working on a Rails Web site (ShareTheVisit) and using a gem called Sorcery. I like the idea behind Sorcery, as a library that offloads the common features around picking passwords, activating...
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