Tag Archives: rest

Shoot for simplicity

By toni | Published: October 19, 2009

I really loved a couple of phrases from the Ted’s blog post “Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease“: the title and the last sentence: “We are in desperate need of simplicity in this industry.”.
Complexity
Writing software it is still way to complex in these days.
I can recall few attempts to make it easier, they [...]

Posted in General Stuff | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Flex & REST: Fun

By toni | Published: June 4, 2009

I’ve played a little with Flex in these last days, I’ve built up a Cover Flow Style Application to browse your Facebook friends.
It uses Facebook AS3 REST API and the SebCoverFlow library for the Cover Flow.
It’s online here, and the source code is here. I don’t know if I’ll spend more time on it but [...]

Posted in General Stuff | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

Database Options

By toni | Published: April 21, 2009

I’ve been an ignorant for years, I’ve used hibernate, I’ve listened to DBAs, clients, architects and I’ve ignored all the persistence options available.
My previous post was arguing the need of an RDMS, there are another two DB types missing from that list:

Column Oriented Databases
Document Oriented Databases

Hadoop and MonetDB are two “popular” Column Oriented Databases, the [...]

Posted in General Stuff | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Spring Facts

By toni | Published: April 17, 2009

Spring Java Configuration is the answer of Rod Johnson to all xml haters, with javaconfig you can configure the whole Spring IOC in pure Java
Spring Autowiring with Annotations will lead you to a more readable and smaller xml configuration file
Spring Transactions with Annotations will let you fine-grained configuration of your service layer transactionality
Spring and Terracotta [...]

Posted in General Stuff | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment