Handy-URI-Templates 1.1.7 Released
Yesterday Handy URI Templates 1.1.7 was released which fixed a few uritemplate-test issues as well as some URI encoding fixes. Hat tip to tekener for those fixes. With that out of the way, I’ll be focusing on 1.2 which will…
Handy Aspects Moved to GitHub
A few years back, I dabbled a bit with Aspect Oriented Programming and dorked around with JBoss AOP and AspectJ. I created a few aspects an threw them up on Java.net. Over the years, I never really kept up with…
Handy URI Templates 1.1.2 Released
After a few weeks of tweaking, I put out a new release of Handy URI Templates. What’s important about version 1.1.2 is that it is now being tested against the uritemplate-test suite started by Mark Nottingham. Most importantly, it is…
Fun with URI Templates and the Facebook Graph API
URI Templates can make interacting with the web APIs like the Facebook Graph API a little easier. Here, I’ll show you how you can use URI Templates to create request URIs into the Facebook Graph API using the Handy URI…
Amazon Makes the Kindle Fire an Easy Target for a Thief
Having recieved a Kindle Fire this year, I was really surprised at the unpacking process and minimal security. While the device is very nice, the whole unpacking process made me realize that the Kindle Fire is a package thief’s dream….
The AppleTV is an Anomaly
I have to admit that the new $99 AppleTV caught my attention when it was announced a few days ago. Small, cheap, works with iTunes, Netflix built in, and all for $99. Sounds pretty cool, right? I don’t think so…
URL vs. URI vs. URN, in More Concise Terms
Without a doubt, the URL vs. URI post is by the most visited page on this blog. Even so, there’s still a lot of confusion on the topic and so I thought I’d break it down in less words. The…
Adobe XMP Packet Extraction for the Aperture Framework
When it comes to manipulating photographs, I live in Photoshop. One feature of all Adobe products that I like is the ability to annotate images and other documents using their eXtensible Metadata Platform, or XMP. XMP is a collection of…
Semantic Web Icon and Logo Stencil for OmniGraffle
I’ve been doing a lot of diagrams related to some of the projects that I have doing with RDF and other Semantic Web technologies. Rather that cut and paste PNG icons into OmniGraffle, I decided to start putting together a…
You can’t do anything “over REST”
Sometimes, you can let things slide, but there are other time when terms are just used so incorrectly that it has to be called out. One thing that always gets me is the gross misuse of the term REST. For…
