Most APIs are described as being RESTful but many really aren’t. Fortunately understanding about what RESTful really means is becoming more common. The one area that seems to still hold debate is HATEOAS. Should an API be described to its consumers with documentation or should they discover it through links, the relationships between the requested […]
Well my hosting company Anynines went down and I was lazy about relocating my blog to a new host. I’m still a fan of AnyNines but I’m now wary of their dev hosting and a little disappointed they never did a post-mortem of the outage. I considered GitHub Pages but I want to have comments […]
This blog post is inspired by a wonderful and entertaining video called Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey. It explains the difference between easy & simple, and why we’re obsessed with the wrong one. It’s a sentiment I’ve known for a long time but I’ve never seen it put in to words before. The rest […]
Developing an extension for Firefox is no different than developing anything else and CI is a good idea. It’s actually very easy to use Travis to run your test suite. For those that don’t know, Travis is a great resource for running CI on your open source projects for free. Travis will install any version […]
Working on the Java Buildpack means lots of testing with unit (over 99% coverage) and integration tests but we also have a suite of sample applications to do complete system wide testing. They are all tested during our CI builds and might be useful for people that want to play around with different application types […]
Until now the preferred way to make changes to the Java Buildpack has been to fork it and edit one of the yaml files in the config directory. If a bigger change is required then the code has to be edited directly. For a configuration change forking can be a pain so there is a […]
