February 2009
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Solar Rechargeable Batteries →
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My interest is piqued at this notion of a web application whose back-end deals in JSON exclusively when communicating to the front-end. JSON served by the server, processed and rendered on the client. Generated client events, from classic form submissions to exotic componentized elements, transmitting interaction and event data as JSON objects.
I haven’t yet had time enough to steep in...
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Tech Tuesday: The Fiddly Bits
urbantastic:
In my last post I promised to talk a little about the technology that underlies Urbantastic. It’s not the usual suspects, so it’s worth some explanation.
Warning: Here be severe geekery.
Urbantastic is a typical web 2.0 site in a lot of ways: users posting messages to each other has been done before, certainly. But in the main it’s completely new. The site shares certain aspects...
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Escapa! Follow at your own risk. →
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“The only way to trust dynamic code is to test the hell out of it. TEST.”
– Alex “al3x” Payne, Twitter API Lead
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Virb's HTTP Headers: Final Rundown
In an earlier post I mentioned some goofy headers I noticed being sent by Virb. Here’s a recap with the final verdict for each one, including the pieces I missed.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Virb loves you <3
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:30:50 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: BSGISAWESOME=(long and boring)
Expires: Fri, 25 Oct 1985...
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Isolator →
The idea of this app is so simple: cover everything on your screen except for the focused window with a black canvas. I feel like it actually helps me stay focused.
“e6bcfd60
c1a61259
9493eeb1
170689b9”
– head -n 1 /dev/urandom | md5
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Embedding Tumblr via JS (and Filtering by Post...
I have a blog on blogger, though now that tumblr has captured my attention (at least for the moment), that may not be the case in the future. I’ve kept that blog for a while to document life, experiences, and travels, and there are a handful of people that actually read it (ie friends and family).
When I started using twitter, I wanted to hook up my updates to a widget on blogger. I wanted...
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So that cookie - BSGISAWESOME - is actually a Battlestar Galactica reference. Doh. Thanks to Matt Hogan (http://virb.com/matthogan) for pinning it down.
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Looks like I missed one; much respect to Henry Work (@hwork) for catching it. The Expires header is a Back to the Future reference - when Einstein was sent one minute into the future. Very nice.
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A Peek at Virb 2's HTTP Headers
I’ve been on an explorative kick this week, which while somewhat derailing to my work, has been enjoyable in a highly nerdy way. Virb 2 was just launched a day or 2 ago (hats off to the Virb guys), and I’m trying to not dismiss it altogether as tumblr has currently captured my attention. Anyway, I’m not into product comparisons so on with the nerdy.
Out of plain technological...
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Testing a SOAP Webservice with curl from a Shell
Assuming you have a valid soap message stored in the file “soap-msg.xml,” you can easily test its execution via curl straight from the shell:
msg=`cat soap-msg.xml`curl -H “Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8” -d “$msg”http://foo.com/webservice
Inelegant it is, but it can give you a quick human look into the message result if something is going awry.
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Google Testing Blog →
If you write code without unit tests, you should be slapped. When you come to, add the google testing blog to your feeds.
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Products and Options: The Problem
I’m not an expert in inventory systems, warehouse management, production or product distribution of any kind. However, as ROSA LOVES continually evolves I will probably become one (or at least in certain areas). At ROSA LOVES our inventory is currently simple: we sell shirts. When we originally launched, everything came together extremely quickly, mainly because it had to. As it has become...
Convince Me
So tumblr seems interesting. I’ve been hosting a wordpress blog on my own site for some time now, and even though I haven’t been an active poster, I have come to loathe wordpress. Blogger gets the job done, but I figured I’d give something new a chance.
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Recursive Tweets
I’m a twitter user, you can follow me here. I’m also the nerd side of ROSA LOVES, and I do most of the tweeting for it as well. We’ve recently started sending out a newsletter via email quite regularly, and have been trying to combine that in various ways with our tweeting. A few days ago I realized I could easily create link that, when clicked on, would lead the user to their twitter homepage...