The fourth and final part of this series is focusing on using the Slim Framework’s middleware functionality to validate (to a degree) RESTful API requests. This post will show how to add a simple API key to the requests. There … Continue reading
The first part of this mini-series showed how to use the Slim Framework to set up a really basic RESTful API. The second part discussed how to actually use that API to do the standard Get, Put, Post, and Delete … Continue reading
I was playing around with Slim Framework recently, and decided to write-up another article about it, since it’s such a breeze. The original post highlighted how simple it was to get your Get, Post, Put, and Delete all wired up … Continue reading
In the first two parts of this series, I highlighted how easy AppFog is to setup and some of the slick functionality that AppFog offers. This third part will cover a couple of neat AppFog tricks I’ve seen. Cloning Your … Continue reading
In the first part, I outlined what made AppFog such an appealing tool for developers. Setup is painless and fast, and there’s a free tier that has a lot of functionality and power. In Part 2, I’ll take a look … Continue reading
In the past, I have advocated utilizing AWS to quickly spin up some development environments. It’s not that tedious to do, but it can take a little bit of time, and it can also have some costs associated with it. … Continue reading
One thing that can be a hassle is handling differing development and production database configurations. On your local box you have set of database credentials, on the live system you have another. Frequently, you may end up commenting out one … Continue reading
A couple of years ago I was working on a little prototype web app. Part of that app required the ingest of email messages, which would then be further processed. Now, it wasn’t a huge issue to pipe the emails … Continue reading
Writing and interacting with APIs, RESTful APIs in particular, is something most web developers have to deal with. There are a number of ways to implement them, and many of them are quite straightforward, like on the Java side of … Continue reading
Avoiding Pain One thing that is frequently a pain is setting up dev servers to work on. This is especially true if you are working at home. Running a bunch of different services on your main system isn’t great as … Continue reading