You might not be HATEOAS if...
There's been a lot of talk around the office and online lately about what HATEOAS actually means and how to actually implement it, so far I'm still not sure HOW to properly do HATEOAS, but I think the easiest way is to catalogue the various ways to N
Comments (1) . Sunday, 21 February 2010
Top Albums of 2009
Out of all of the new music I've heard and collected this year, I somehow managed to whittle my favorites down to 23 albums, which for one reason or another sent chills down my spine as I listened, or kept coming back to haunt my inner ear.
This yea
Comments (0) . Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Podcast Gear
For the past few months we've been recording the Illegal Argument java podcast and I thought I'd write down some quick thoughts on the tools/setup we're using.
The first ever recording (not publicly available) was recorded directly to internal mike
Comments (1) . Sunday, 16 August 2009
Writing Stupid Specifications with Concordion
For a while I've been an avid lover of the concordion testing framework, but one thing I always struggled with was the separation of state/data between the specification and the fixture. As a simple work around I added a simple "eval" command, which
Comments (0) . Saturday, 30 May 2009
Recent Album Reviews
I've been meaning to write up some album reviews for the ever growing mass of recently acquired music this year, and late last year but I always find writing reviews hard - hard to give enough justice to the music, hard to fully articulate any though
Comments (1) . Sunday, 24 May 2009
Illegal Argument #5
Episode #5 of our new java podcast Illegal Argument is has been posted focusing on language diversity and Microsoft's new Axum programming language, static vs dynamic templates and much more.
Comments (0) . Sunday, 17 May 2009
Connecting the Clouds - The Internet in New Zealand in PDF
The other day I was pointed to the <a href="http://www.nethistory.co.nz/index.php/Main_Page>>wiki version of Keith Newmans book "The Internet in New Zealand" and but found it hard to read, so I decided to convert the content into PDF for a m
Comments (3) . Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Code Coverage of Clojure Code
Since pulling in Dmitry's test-compile mojo, and adding a test script runner mojo to the clojure-maven-plugin I thought I'd try something fun like running the maven emma plugin against a very simple test project.
I was pleasantly surprised to see so
Comments (0) . Friday, 24 April 2009
Clojure running successfully under OSGi
Functional languages, and specifically the clojure language are being talked about at the SMX offices recently and I thought it was about time I gave it a closer examination and I've always found the easiest way for me to learn about new technology/f
Comments (4) . Sunday, 1 February 2009
A day at Parachute 2009
Like most years I spent Saturday at Parachute Music Festival, opting this year just for the day rather than the full weekend, but I managed to catch some killer acts, including my brothers set with the beginnings of a new song called Lifeboat:
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Comments (0) . Monday, 26 January 2009