News You Can Bruise for 2011 May 23 (entry 0)

(2) Mon May 23 2011 08:56 Findings, Week k-(k+n): This feature went by the wayside, along with NYCB posting in general, because I get on the subway, and go to work, and get on the subway to go back home, and then I'm tired. Just like a real job!

Suffice to say that I'm gradually switching from implementing new features to improving the code that's already written, and we'll launch a semi-public beta in the next couple weeks.

A couple miscellaneous things learned from the week I spent writing web service clients:

• Tumblr's web service supports OAuth, but they don't really mention this anywhere except in the post announcing it. Be aware!
• URLs are awesome. A URL is a unique identifier that has meaning to the outside world. Don't send me an object's primary key; send me its URL. I'm just soapboxing here, really.

Comments:

Posted by Evan at Mon May 23 2011 21:11

http://fuckyeahnouns.com/commute

oh yeah.

Posted by Evan's Dad at Mon May 30 2011 11:36

I agree with you about the awesomeness of URLs. Even more awesome are URIs. Ever since I found out about Linked Data (q.v. http://linkeddata.org/) I've been a fan of identifying data in a way that it can easily be referenced. It makes everything on the net limkable. Add that to the Semantic Web (q.v. http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/)and that's just too cool.