This is my take on the current shift to rich, in-browser JavaScript apps. Web apps and static HTML. Web services and rich browser apps.

I am a developer and consultant, writing software for the web. I bring intensity, integrity and intellect to everything I do. I use the word awesome. I find great value in the concepts of the the Agile Manifesto. And look for value in industry best practices. Just as a note, I think SOAP. There are dramatically better options. Check out Designing Hypermedia APIs.

This is my blog, where I talk about software, literature, philosophy, politics, and whatever else I feel like. Most of it is software. Check out the links on the left for more.

First In this post, I turn my attention to building features with the restricted data that v2. Notifying existing users of your app when their Facebook friends register. Allowing existing users to invite their Facebook friends to join.

Every web service needs a killer API to interact with numerous clients and other web services. Users expect the applications they use to work together in interesting and fresh ways; the programmable web has created interesting experiences that the originators of services would have never concieved. The web operates at massive scale and has been in production for over two decades. Or check out the blog.

A concerted effort to augment and enhance Ruby MRI documentation. Article and screencast on the documentation process. The Ruby Documentation Project is dedicated to getting MRI Ruby fully documented. To achieve this goal as fast as possible, we offer a support system. Great way to solidify your Ruby fundamentals. A list of undocumented areas.

On databases, programming and more. Running Tomcat 5 as a service under Windows 7 64-bit. Hopefully this can help you out, too.

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