Benjamin Carlyle has posted a followup about
using PUT to create new resources
in which he brings up some interesting issues.
First, it seems I miss understood his original idea slightly. My
misunderstanding does not affect how I feel about his approach much.
I don’t like the idea of PUT-ting to a “factory” resource with a GUID
in […]
It seems that I was a little unclear in
my post about using the HTTP PUT method for resource
creation, so let me try again.
In this post Benjamin Carlyle points out that
using POST for resource creation has some serious flaws. To see the
main problem with using POST for resource creation consider the
following scenario.
You make a POST […]
It seems that if you tilt your head just the right way
software engineering has a lot in common with manufacturing. One thing I
like about this idea is that it does a pretty good job of explaining
why agile software development practices work.
Benjamin Carlyle has an interesting bit about the possibility of
deprecating the HTTP POST method. I think most people who have
thought deeply about RESTful architectures have had similar thoughts.
GET, PUT and DELETE are all nicely idempotent, but POST is not.
GET, PUT, and DELETE have clean, well defined semantics, but POST does
not. POST generally seems […]
I have been using PHP1 as my primary language for
five months now so I feel somewhat qualified to speak about it. My
overall conclusion is that PHP is weak sauce. It is easy to get
started with PHP but it’s usefulness decreases as the complexity of
the application increases. This is primarily because keeping PHP […]
I finally got around to setting up Selenium and writing a few
tests yesterday. I have been meaning to do that ever since
Charlie pointed it out to me a few months ago. Man, I wish I
hadn’t waited. Selenium is easily the best way to test a web app that
I have every tried. […]
The more I work with Perforce the more annoyed I get with it’s belief
that it is the center of the software development process. Not that
Perforce is not unique in believing this. In fact, many commercial
revision control systems have this same megalomania.
So, commercial revision control vendors, let me clue you in. Revision
control systems […]
I have been learning two different source control systems in the last
couple of weeks. Source control systems are a vital tool in any
software development activity so I want to share my impressions of
these tools.
Mercurial
I finally got around to setting up a repository for my personal
projects1.
For these projects, I chose to use
Mercurial. I have […]
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Alex Bunardzic has written an interesting article about
namespaces.
He calls into question the usefulness of the canonical approach of
hierarchically structured namespaces. I think he’s onto something but
his example are pretty weak. It is easy to pick on the Java package
names because they are often over the top. Unfortunately, Java
package names are the namespaces […]
I have been using
Markdown to
write my blog posts for quite some time now and I really like it. I
was a little surprised how much I liked it when I first switched
because before I had been writing in HTML which works well. But it
really is easier to focus on the content when you don’t […]
