Some cool changes have come along for RestLess . Instead of blabbering on, I'll dive right into the changes. Small naming changes Based on Dave Donaldson 's recommendation, IRESTReadable, RESTProperty, etc have their case changed. They are now IRestReadable, RestProperty, etc. Just do a rename all on...
I have been disappointed with the amount of legwork involved with setting up a simple REST API, so I decided to write a small attribute-based framework. The goal was to make it as simple as possible and be discoverable. Right now, the framework only supports GETting objects from your api, but that will...
The more sites I've tried in the past few years, the more I've noticed who cares about usability and who uses it in their marketing slogans. Some of the biggest players on the web define usability as doing what everyone else does . That is NOT usability. I will pick on my own application to demonstrate...
Today, I launched a one-click live demo of Meiraware Business (a simple and easy invoicing application). Why a live demo? In my opinion, screencasts and/or screenshots is a distant second to actually using an application. Screencasts - I don't want to be guided through by someone who knows what they...
I've been asked by a few people the easiest way to store your data inside Graffiti. Most people start the question with "How do I add tables to the database ....". You could do that, but it would be complicated and annoying to deploy to other users. Simply use the ObjectManager and all your code will move to any Graffiti installation with ease.
Nathaniel Talbott had a great presentation this evening at the Agile RTP meeting. His Lightning Talk (4 - 5 minutes), Jim Cramer style, was about spending more energy on your application's user interface. One line from his slides really hit home for me: The user interface IS THE APPLICATION I couldn...
I just finished the first run of a Graffiti plug-in I'm calling SkinnyWeb. This plug-in allows you to compress the source output of your graffiti website to the user using GZIP, DEFLATE, or a custom WhiteSpace module. For now, it only compresses the outputted html. I've got some issues to work around...
A month or so ago my VM completely hard locked. I was working on Graffiti and had just created a category called 'test'. I had no choice but to force the vm closed and reopen. When I booted back up the system ran chkdsk. It fixed a lot of stuff, but 'test' was sititng in that source directory saying...
Leo of Zen Habits (one of my favorite blogs) recently posted asking readers for tips on working from home. I left the following comments on his blog: Bad TV. Yep, that’s the secret. If you watch good TV, you will turn around from your desk and watch. Same with good music… you will pay attention...
I'm glad to announce that the Graffiti migrator will be included with Graffiti beta 2. Thanks to everyone for all of your help and feedback. Beta 2 should be out sometime this week, worst case early next week. The first round will support CS2007 DB connection, Wordpress and BlogML. The amount of testing...
