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Migrating user accounts from Google OpenID to Google OAuth to Google Plus 29 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
Background Over here, Ade has asked me to permalink a comment I made about moving Player FM accounts from Google Open ID to OAuth. The reason I did it was because Android sign-in is really based on O...
Logging an error with Exceptional 10 Jul 2013 | 04:30 pm
Here’s a quick utility for people using Exceptional to track errors. It lets you force an exception to be logged and without having to rescue it. Example: exceptional “read_file”, “file not found” ...
Defer and Recur with Rails, Redis, and Resque 5 Jul 2013 | 04:44 am
I’ve put off some scaling related issues about as long as possible, and am now proceeding to introduce a deferred-job stack. I’ll explain what I’ve learned so far, and with the caveat: this isn’t in p...
What Everyone Should Know About REST: Talk at Web Directions Code 5 May 2013 | 09:34 am
Here are the slides: Slides: What Everyone Should Know About REST Thanks UX Mastery for the sketchnotes, they are awesome! (Seriously, I would be much more swayed to speak at any conference with ske...
JavaScript swims downstream with the web 19 Apr 2013 | 05:49 am
Roy Fielding’s original REST dissertation (published in 2000) has an interesting section on Java versus JavaScript, which I’ve not come across before and has certainly stood the test of time. In parti...
Testing HTTPS Locally 10 Apr 2013 | 08:01 am
As I’m migrating the player over to HTTPS, one challenge is partial content, leading to an incomplete padlock and strikethrough domain warning like this: And the harsh but fair warning, upon inspecti...
Post hoc ergo propter hoc: Posterous Moved 8 Apr 2013 | 03:25 pm
For some years, I ran a little posterous blog called Mini Software As She’s Developed, the little brother to this blog’s great uncle’s step-cousin. It was effectively a pastebin to throw random things...
Blinking WebKit 4 Apr 2013 | 05:54 am
Speed. When Alex Russell talks about greater speed [1], I take it fractally. At micro level, it means actual day-to-day web development and debugging is faster; and at macro level, it means browsers a...
Why Google killed off Google Reader: It was self-defense (GigaOM guest post) 17 Mar 2013 | 10:27 am
Guest-posted this on GigaOM today. Backstory is I started writing it on Thursday night after seeing all the Reader tweetstorm and figured it’s probably of more general interest, so I submitted it the...
About WebWait and Caching 15 Mar 2013 | 05:50 pm
I received today a question often asked about WebWait, so I’ll answer it here for reference. WebWait User asks: I have been using webwait for a while and have a quick question for you. When running ...
