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Linkdump #8
Scriptensity: Emscripten 1.0! This is the first I’ve heard of this project: it’s an LLVM-to-Javascript compiler. Which means you can (for instance) compile C++ to Javascript. I can’t decide if this is amazing or just batshit insane. Probably both. tags: … Continue reading
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Tagged http, javascript, llvm, ruby, spdy, static analysis, tcp, tdd, test-unit, testing, yield
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Linkdump #5
What would Feynman do? – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs One of the most entertaining software development articles I’ve read in a long time. tags: development feynman No one I know at Microsoft asks those … Continue reading
REST Resources
From time to time people ask me questions about RESTful architecture. I thought it might be helpful to list the resources that I keep near at hand for asnwering tricky REST questions. Standards: RFC2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol: If you haven’t read … Continue reading
A Rack-like library for HTTP Clients
Faraday is an HTTP client library inspired by Rack. Requests and Responses go through middleware which allow for abstraction and modular code. via Writing modular HTTP client code with Faraday | Adventures In Coding. Strike that off my list of … Continue reading
The Ruby Stdlib is a Messy Workshop
Mike picks out Net::HTTP as his prime example saying Its performance and API are just terrible but does not back his performance claims with any benchmarks and does not back up his API claims with any examples. The rest of … Continue reading
Viewing REST service responses in a browser
Have you ever had this experience? You’re debugging some RESTful service and trying to figure out why it’s returning 500s. So you dump the response body to STDOUT and HOLY HAND GRENADE THAT’S A LOT OF HTML!!! Wouldn’t it be … Continue reading
