Episode 0.5.5 – Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY. Download MP3 Items mentioned in the show: We’ll be doing a live show...
View ArticleEpisode 0.6.0 – Fog and The Cloud with Wesley Beary
Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf. Items mentioned in the show: Wesley Beary aka @geemus The Fog project is the...
View ArticleRestSharp: Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET
I’m a big fan of making idiomatic language bindings for APIs. Making common tasks such as URI generation, transport, authentication, and payload parsing configurable options and providing a...
View ArticleRenee – Sinatra-inspired Rack framework for über DRY routing
Josh Hull knows Sinatra. As part of the Padrino, he also knows about creating new alternatives to popular frameworks. His latest effort is Renee, a web framework for Rack that aims to DRY up your...
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Amon – Python-powered server monitoring, logging, and error reporting with...
Amon from Martin Rusev is a simple yet flexible way to add server monitoring, logging, and error tracking to your web stack. Amon consists of three parts: a collector daemon, a Python web app, and JSON...
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httpie – Python-powered HTTP CLI for humans
Although cURL is great, we’re always looking for great console tools for working with HTTP. Jakub Roztocil has released HTTPie. Built on Requests, HTTPie provides a clean command line interface for...
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Usergrid – Turnkey social graph, activity streams for your application
Almost every application has a social layer these days. If you have users, most likely you have relationships, roles, and activity streams. Usergrid, a Java project from Apigee aims to be a turn-key...
View ArticleGitHub Archive: API for GitHub’s historical timeline
You folks create a lot of events on GitHub. Trying to mine and report on that data is definitely a big data problem. Ilya Grigorik wants to help the community get a handle on the GitHub firehose with...
View ArticleMBRequest – Easier API wrappers in iOS and OSX
A good API wrapper should handle network transport, payload serialization/deserialization, and authentication, abstracting these details away in order to let the developer deal with the business domain...
View ArticleRails::API – Lightweight Rails stack for headless API apps
“Rails is just an API,” say Alex (featured on Episode 0.7.1) and others. Rails core team member Santiago Pastorino might not endorse the “just” part, but his Rails::API aims to provide a slimmer stack...
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Gitspective – Facebook style timeline for your GitHub feed
A great looking use of the GitHub API from Zach Moazeni to visualize your GitHub timeline. Create your own timeline or browse the source on GitHub. The post Gitspective – Facebook style timeline for...
View ArticleEpisode 0.8.1 – Celluloid, concurrency, and more with Tony Arcieri
Wynn talked with Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid, about concurrency in Ruby and his thoughts on Erlang, Clojure, and design patterns. Items mentioned in the show Tony Arcieri, creator of Celluloid....
View ArticleBackstop – Simple HTTP service for submitting metrics to Graphite
We’ve mentioned a couple of Graphite-related projects previously. Jason Dixon and Michael Gorsuch from Heroku have released Backstop, a simple HTTP-to-Graphite proxy to make it simple to send metrics....
View ArticleHyperspider – Declarative HATEOAS API crawler for Node.js
Interesting project from Jed Schmidt to roll up resources in hypertext APIs: Give it a list of url patterns, and it will recursively crawl your hypertext HTTP API, streaming back every matching...
View ArticleWork with 1.8 million IRS-recognized Nonprofits in Ruby with the GuideStar API
For those out there working on fighting social injustices and changing the world like we are at Pure Charity, I wanted to mention this Ruby wrapper for the Guidestar API from Mauricio Gomes of Gemini...
View ArticleGitHub exposes public ssh keys for its users
Thanks for sharing this Postmodern. TIL @github exposes the ssh public keys for users. github.com/defunkt.keys Handy for adding devs to servers/repos.— Postmodern (@postmodern_mod3) February 10, 2013...
View ArticleTumblr releases their SDK for iOS (and other official client libraries for...
Bryan Irace, iOS developer at Tumblr, announced in this post that Tumblr recently open-sourced their SDK for iOS as well as a few official client libraries for the Tumblr API. We’ve been using this SDK...
View ArticleThe White House shares their web API standards on GitHub
A fine hat tip to Lisa Nelson for sharing this on Twitter. Have you seen the new White House Web API Standards? On Github github.com/WhiteHouse/api…— Lisa Nelson (@LisaLNelson) March 21, 2013 From the...
View ArticleWrite Ruby API’s with Poncho
As we said in a previous post: WE LOVE STRIPE! The team at Stripe has open sourced a RubyGem that makes REST API’s easy to create, Poncho. It’s compatible with any rack-based framework — like Rails or...
View ArticleHyperresource: a hypermedia API client for Ruby
Any of you who know me aren’t surprised about me posting this story: it’s right up my alley! Basically, hyperresource is intended to be a general hypermedia client. What’s that mean? It can work with...
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