I am going to describe two current techniques for building web applications and services that produce/consume data either by Request-Response or by Publish-Subscribe. All web browsers support HTTP which is inherently a request-response protocol typically built on top of TCP. It is used to serve HTML documents (for human consumption) but can also be used [...]
Archive For February, 2010
Nobody Cares About Your Social Network Startup
Several weeks ago I was at a <insert name of programming language> user group meeting where a couple of start-ups were demoing the applications that they had developed. As is typical of such demos, the presenter explained what the application did, showed off some of its features and then got into the technical implementation details. [...]
Pycon 2010 Wrap-up
I just got back from my first ever Pycon. The conference is a hackathon, geek festival, and technical talks combined into one intense event. A more apt name for it would be Pypalooza. I was there for the three days of the technical talks but next year I hope to be able to participate in [...]
Git ‘refspec’ warning.
After updating my Ubuntu development system, my ‘git push’ commands mysteriously started to throw ominous sounding warnings like this: warning: You did not specify any refspecs to push, and the current remote warning: has not configured any push refspecs. The default action in this warning: case is to push all matching refspecs, that is, all [...]
