happyshadows | 11 years ago | on: Do you really know why you prefer REST over RPC?
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happyshadows | 11 years ago | on: A standard for building APIs in JSON
Same issue here. Now so off-track that I'll probably just change the content-type and call it a day.
happyshadows | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: MagicEye.js – Generate Magic Eye in Your Browser
When Lord? When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?
happyshadows | 11 years ago | on: Introducing the Internet.org App
Seems like a throwback to the days of the web portal (ala Yahoo.)
happyshadows | 12 years ago | on: Rails – The Missing Parts
Mutations is a great gem. I've used in my latest project and it has been an exceptionally useful tool for managing complexity.
happyshadows | 12 years ago | on: Where did all the HTTP referrers go?
I wish Google would change their meta-tag from "origin" to "always". It's getting harder and harder to see which keywords bring traffic to your site these days.
happyshadows | 13 years ago | on: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
I would stick with GA and just trigger an event via javascript once the body of text is scrolled through.
If I didn't know how to do that, I would probably use a scrollmap tool like CrazyEgg.
happyshadows | 13 years ago | on: HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?
Analytics calculates the time on page by the time difference _between_ page hits. One hit: 0 seconds on site. Because of this, it isn't an accurate metric to measure engagement for a single blog post.
happyshadows | 13 years ago | on: Why founders shouldn't be the developers
One of the tangental points you raised was wrong so you are wrong!
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It is much easier to capture user intent with POST /api/customer/1/change-address-due-to-move { "address_1": "...", "address_2": "...", ... }
than with: PUT /api/customer/1 { "address_1": "...", "address_2": "...", ... }
Also, GET /api/resource/action is nice place for a payload describing the expected inputs to the action. Link it all together with hypermedia and you really have something ;)
Believe others are coming around to this line of thought: ThoughtWorks included "REST without PUT" onto their technology radar earlier this year.