A couple of weeks ago I talked about REST at SOA India 2008. It was nice to see some attendees already familiar with REST mostly because they were consumers of Amazon S3 but were curious to know the details. The talk went well and today I received some requests for the slides. So here is Integrating [...]

For the last 10 months or so I have been quite heavily involved in building RESTful server components and I think now is an appropriate time to retrospect on how my own thinking has changed since then. For the first month or so I really did get this cool new stuff called REST or to put [...]

Somewhere I heard the speaker say in a ppt on REST that the guys behind the WS-* specs are ** actually bright ** people but somehow kept missing the point. Here is another proof of this statement. I think this juggernaut won’t stop until they have made everything that HTTP facilitates also possible through SOAP. Way to go [...]

One of the major changes I found after switching to a feed reader was the sharp rise in the number feeds I have ended up subscribing to. Its almost like making new friends. And then Metcalfe’s law takes over to bring more friends,philosophers and guides. I am amazed on looking back at the number and [...]

A couple of days ago I started learning python. As I go through the experience of learning another language I want to take a step back and talk about how a person who has siginificant experience in other programming languages might approach learning a new language. Like most folks in the community I too started out [...]

I am not sure how many of us have had this kind of an experience but this happens often to me. Over the last couple of days I have been reading about good performance tuning tips and within myself started wishing that I would get an opportunity to fix one. And (reminds me of Paulo Coelho [...]

After working on RoR for close to an year I can’t stop applying many of the learnings I gathered while I was in that camp. On my current codebase I decided to solve the issue of configuring things differently in different environments with some inspiration from Rails. One insightful way of look at Rails itself is to [...]

A couple of days ago as I was casually glancing over Dzone description of a new google group started by Charles Nutter of JRuby fame for JVM Languages came to my attention. Oflate (more motivated by my rendezvous with parser gens and grammars) I have found myself naturally drawn to programming language internals. I was [...]

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For quite sometime (as far as I can remember I have tracking it now for 5 months) now there has been enough buzz around Apollo, the new cross platform RIA toolkit from Adobe. The Ajaxian even has a video demo of it. I still remember the Aha! feeling I had when I first installed Google [...]