Why would a presidential candidate make such an important announcement on his MySpace page?
The answer? He wouldn’t.
But I would.
You see, John McCain’s people commandeered my world-renowned MySpace design template and did a few things wrong:
Newsvine (via Kottke) — So, does this mean McCain’s site hacked itself?
The CyberSurActionMailerMonkey Manifesto.Mauricio Fernandez — Refresh for a new Manifesto.
The AntiNeoRailsBeliever Manifesto.Mauricio Fernandez — And here too.
The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient
Put the main application logic into a RESTful server. This is where all the CRUD-style access to resources takes place.
Then, write a second proxy server. This is an HTTP filter, sitting between dumb browsers and your core resources. When browser-based users need to interact with your resources, they actually connect to this proxy. It then talks REST to your main server, and interprets the RESTful responses back into a form that’s useful on the browser. And this filter doesn’t have to be a dumb presentation layer—there’s nothing to say that it can’t handle additional functionality as well. Things like menus, user preferences, and so on could all sit here.
Where does this filter sit? That depends. Sometimes it makes sense to have it running locally on the user’s own computer. … Sometimes it makes sense to have the proxy running on the network. In this case you gain some interesting architectural flexibility—there’s no rule that says you must colocate your REST and presentation servers.
PragDave — This was interesting to read. This appears to be exactly what we did at Recursive starting just over four years ago. I’ve posted a longish comment describing some of what we did.
Beautiful Code: Chapter by Chapter
Beautiful Code now has a cover, and I can share the chapter summaries
The Third Bit
Yang Wu and Wu Ping, a couple living in the Chinese city of Chongquing, have been holding out in the most extreme sense to a real estate developer who wants to build a shopping mall where their neighborhood once stood.
Josh Spear — Wow. There is a photo on the linked page.
Making Your Site Look Like Mine
“Can I use the design of Subtraction.com for my site?” Variants include, “Can I make a WordPress theme (or similar template) from your design?” or, “I just redesigned my site and it looks a lot like Subtraction.com, do you mind?”
Subtraction — Subtraction is one of the nicest designs I’ve ever seen.
