Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by thetacom

Here’s a very interesting slideshow I just found. It proposes using XMPP as a quick and lightweight alternative to bulky feeds and HTML.
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

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Ruby on Rails has a new Passenger

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by thetacom

This new passenger is a joy to have around.  He is very friendly and truly helpful.  This passenger I’m referring to is Passenger a.k.a. mod_rails for Apache web servers.  Passenger is produced by Phusion, a computer science company that specializes in  IT products and services.
From their site:

“Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails) is a open source product [...]

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It’s about time!

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by thetacom

Farewell all!
Well, I finally got my orders.  I thought it was never going to happen.  Being a recruiter has been a unique experience to say the least.  Though one I’m definitely not going to miss.  In many ways I found my time out here more traumatizing than the year I spent in Iraq.   Although my [...]

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