Thursday 27 January 2011

When something seriously goes wrong

Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=140992

PHP Sockets

You want to create a server and a client that live and thrive in a networked environment. With PHP you can make that happen with sockets. Checkout: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Socket-Programming-With-PHP/ for the basics.

Wednesday 19 January 2011

From: Roy T. Fielding

I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the
SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.

Source: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
More: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm