January 2012
2 posts
If2D - DSL Fun with Ruby, Lambdas, and Whitespace
After watching Sean Cribb’s fascinating talk on the resources and WebMachine at RubyConf 2011, it got me thinking about the complexity of the state machine transitions involved in his diagram of an HTTP request. I decided to hack this together this morning just for fun. Disclaimer - I realize this isn’t the most effective way of doing, well, pretty much anything. Just a fun hack.
If2D...
December 2011
1 post
Backend-as-a-service?
As the list of *-as-a-service’s continues to grow, I thought I’d throw one into the mix. What about the idea of a backend-as-a-service (BaaS)?
The recent surge of client side Javascript frameworks along with the attractiveness of simple RESTful APIs has created an environment where server-side interaction can be reduced to simply database interaction (including validation and some...