Archive Posts for: September 25, 2010

A very handy tool for designing, examining, manipulating, and analyzing effectiveness of CSS font stacks.

Code Style: Font stack builder: A very handy tool for designing, examining, manipulating, and analyzing effectiveness of CSS font stacks. (tags: css design tool web)

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The latest version of the Lift Book, in PDF format.

The Lift Book | Google Groups The latest version of the Lift Book, in PDF format. (Creative Commons licensed). Lift is a Scala web application framework. (tags: scala web2.0 webservices web programming tutorial reference)

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Classification of HTTP APIs

Classification of HTTP APIs There is a lot of confusion over what kinds of web service APIs can be called "REST". This article gives a good taxonomy, with examples of which APIs conform to different REST constraints. It is interesting that according to this author the Flickr "REST" API is not very RESTful. (tags: api [...]

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links for 2010-09-09

Cassandra Summit 2010 Performance Tuning Some detailed advice for tweaking Cassandra for best performance. (tags: database architecture) Play framework ★ Home They claim: "Finally a Java framework made by Web developers. Discover a clean alternative to bloated enterprise Java stacks. Play focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures." It also has support for writing [...]

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Well Beings Veterinary Homeopathy

I just discovered that in my neighborhood is a business called Well Beings Veterinary Homeopathy. People in the city do treat their pets like people, and belief in homeopathy is consistent with stereotypes of Californians, but what really tickled me was to see the “well” prefix (usually as in “well-woman” or “well-baby”) added to the [...]

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